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Pulse-adding of Temporal Dissipative Solitons: Resonant Homoclinic Points and the Orbit Flip of Case B with Delay

We numerically investigate the branching of temporally localized, two-pulse periodic traveling waves from one-pulse periodic traveling waves with non-oscillating tails in delay differential equations (DDEs) with large delay. Solutions of this type are commonly referred to as temporal dissipative solitons (TDSs) in applications, and we adopt this term here. We show by means of a prototypical example that -- analogous to traveling pulses in reaction-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs) -- the branching of two-pulse TDSs from one-pulse TDSs with non-oscillating tails is organized by codimension-two homoclinic bifurcation points of a real saddle equilibrium in a corresponding traveling wave frame. We consider a generalization of Sandstede's model (a prototypical model for studying codimension-two homoclinic bifurcation points in ODEs) with an additional time-shift parameter, and use Auto07p and DDE-BIFTOOL to compute numerically the unfolding of these bifurcation points in the resulting DDE. We then interpret this model as the traveling wave equation for TDSs in a DDE with large delay by exploiting the reappearance of periodic solutions in DDEs. In doing so, we identify both the non-orientable resonant homoclinic bifurcation and the orbit flip bifurcation of case $\mathbf{B}$ as organizing centers for the existence of two-pulse TDSs in the DDE with large delay. Additionally, we discuss how folds of homoclinic bifurcations in an auxiliary system bound the existence region of TDSs in the DDE with large delay.