Formation of rogue waves on the periodic background in a fifth-order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation

Abstract

We construct rogue wave solutions of a fifth-order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the Jacobian elliptic function background. By combining Darboux transformation and the nonlinearization of spectral problem, we generate rogue wave solution on two different periodic wave backgrounds. We analyze the obtained solutions for different values of system parameter and point out certain novel features of our results. We also compute instability growth rate of both $dn$ and $cn$ periodic background waves for the considered system through spectral stability problem. We show that instability growth rate decreases (increases) for $dn$-$(cn)$ periodic waves when we vary the value of the elliptic modulus parameter.