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In this paper the theory and simulation results are presented for 3D cylindrical rotationally symmetric spatial soliton propagation in a nonlinear medium using a modified finite-difference time-domain general vector auxiliary differential…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-10 Caleb J. Grimms , Robert D. Nevels

We develop the analytical method of field momenta for analyzing the dynamics of optical vector solitons in photorefractive nonlinear media. First, we derive the effective evolution equations for the parameters of multi-component solitons…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilya Shadrivov , Alexander A. Zharov

A model is introduced to describe guided propagation of a linear or nonlinear pulse which encounters a localized nonlinear defect, that may be either static or breather-like one (the model with the static defect applies to an optical pulse…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Boris A. Malomed , H. E. Nistazakis , Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis , A. Saxena , A. R. Bishop

We theoretically investigate the properties of phonon-polariton inhomogeneous harmonic wave, cnoidal wave and spatial soliton propagating in boundless dielectric medium and compute the shape of nonlinear vector polariton wave. We obtain…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Igor V. Dzedolik , Olga Karakchieva

The applied method of slowly varying amplitudes of the electrical and magnet vector fields give us the possibility to reduce the nonlinear vector integro-differential wave equation to the amplitude vector nonlinear differential equations.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Lubomir M. Kovachev

We found the self-similar solitary solutions of a recently proposed model for propagation of pulses in gas filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers that includes a plasma induced nonlinearity. As anticipated for a simpler model and using…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-21 M. Facao , M. I. Carvalho , P. Almeida

In this article, we present an efficient numerical model able to solve the vectorial nonlinear pulse propagation equation in circularly symmetric multimode waveguides. The algorithm takes advantage of the conservation of total angular…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-27 Pierre Béjot

The phonon-polariton spectrum in dielectric medium with the third order nonlinearity was theoretically obtained. Dependence of number of polariton spectrum branches on intensity of electromagnetic field was investigated. The appearance of…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-08 I. V. Dzedolik , O. S. Karakchieva

This paper studies highly oscillatory solutions to a class of systems of semilinear hyperbolic equations with a small parameter, in a setting that includes Klein--Gordon equations and the Maxwell--Lorentz system. The interest here is in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Julian Baumstark , Tobias Jahnke , Christian Lubich

An electric field propagating along a non-planar path can acquire geometric phases. Previously, geometric phases have been linked to spin redirection and independently to spatial mode transformation, resulting in the rotation of…

We scrutinize the geometrical properties of light propagation inside a nonlinear medium modeled by a fully covariant electromagnetic theory in $2+1$-dimensions. After setting the nonlinear constitutive relations, the phase velocity and the…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-26 Eduardo Bittencourt , Elliton O. S. Brandão , Érico Goulart

I present an overview of pulse propagation methods used in nonlinear optics, covering both full-field and envelope-and-carrier methods. Both wideband and narrowband cases are discussed. Three basic forms are considered -- those based on (a)…

Optics · Physics 2010-12-21 P. Kinsler

We propose and demonstrate theoretically a method to achieve and design optical nonlinear responses through a light-mediated spatial hybridization of different standard nonlinearities. The mechanism is based on the fact that optical…

Optics · Physics 2008-04-24 Alessandro Ciattoni , Eugenio Del Re , Carlo Rizza , Andrea Marini

We investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves through materials displaying a non-linear Hall effect. The coupled Maxwell-Boltzmann equations for traveling waves can be mapped onto ordinary differential equations that resemble…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Falko Pientka , Inti Sodemann Villadiego

We develop a full theoretical analysis of the nonlinear interactions of the two polarizations of a waveguide by means of a vectorial model of pulse propagation which applies to high index subwavelength waveguides. In such waveguides there…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shahraam Afshar V. , M. A. Lohe , Wen Qi Zhang , Tanya M. Monro

We predict multiband vector Plasmonic Lattice Solitons (PLSs) in metal-dielectric waveguide arrays, in both focusing and defocusing nonlinearities. Such vector solitons consist of two components originating from different transmission…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yao Kou , Fangwei Ye , Xianfeng Chen

We consider the ultrashort light pulse propagation through an inhomogeneous monomodal optical fiber exhibiting higher-order dispersive effects. Wave propagation is governed by a generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with varying…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-06 Houria Triki , Vladimir I. Kruglov

We study theoretically nonlinear propagation of light in a graphene monolayer. We show that the large intrinsic nonlinearity of graphene at optical frequencies enables the formation of quasi one-dimensional self-guided beams (spatial…

In this paper, an existence theory is established for ring-profiled optical vortex solitons. We consider such solitons in the context of an electromagnetic light wave propagating in a self-focusing nonlinear media and governed by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Luciano Medina

We consider the linear and nonlinear response of a weighted graphene sheet under the normal incidence of a plane electromagnetic wave in the form of a quasi-monochromatic pulse of long duration with a sharp edge and harmonic filling. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Michael V. Davidovich