Modulational stability of solitary states in a lossy nonlinear electrical line

The modified Ginzburg–Landau equation that describes the pulse propagation in a lossy electrical transmission line is used to derive an eigenvalue problem that allows a detailed investigation of the modulational stability of the solitary states in the line. It is found that the growth rates of the perturbation are complex functions of the spatial variable and that, in general, the solitary states in the network can be either modulationally stable, unstable, or destabilized under a given perturbation function.