Dark soliton solutions of the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg–Landau equation with high-order terms and potential barriers in normal-dispersion fiber lasers

In this paper, we numerically study dark solitons in normal-dispersion optical fibers described by the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg–Landau equation. The effects of the third-order dispersion, self-steepening, stimulated Raman dispersion, and external potentials are also considered. The existence, chaotic content and interactions of these objects are analyzed, as well as the tunneling through a potential barrier and the formation of dark breathers aside from dark solitons in two dimensions and their mutual interactions as well as with periodic potentials. Furthermore, the homogeneous solutions of the model and the conditions for their stability are also analytically obtained.