Spatiotemporal Similaritons in (3+l)-Dimensional Inhomogeneous Nonlinear Medium with Cubic-Quintic Nonlinearity

We obtain exact spatiotemporal similaritons to a （3＋ l）-dimensional inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrodinger equation, which describes the propagation of optical pulses in a cubic-quintic nonlinearity medium with distributed dispersion and gain. A one-to-one correspondence between such self-similar waves and solutions of the elliptic equation is found when a certain compatibility condition is satisfied. Based on exact solutions, we discuss evolutional behaviors of self-similar cnoidal waves and chirped similaritons in two kind of typicai soliton control systems. Moreover, the comparison between chirped similaritons and chirp-free solitons is given.