Periodic and solitary waves of the cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

This paper presents the possible periodic solutions and the solitons of the cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Corresponding to five types of different structures of the pseudo-potentials, five types of periodic solutions are given explicitly. Five types of solitons are also obtained explicitly from the limiting procedures of the periodic solutions. This will benefit the study of the generation of fast ions or electrons, which are produced from the soliton breaking when the plasma is irradiated a high-intensity laser pulse.