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We consider the coupled electromagnetic waves propagating in a waveguide array, which consists of alternating waveguides of positive and negative refraction indexes. Due to zigzag configuration there are interactions between both nearest…
We study the evolution of the coupled scalar and fermion fields within the classical field theory. We examine the case of N coupled fields in 1+3 dimensional space. The general expressions for the fields distributions are obtained. The…
This technical note is a complement to an earlier paper [Benzoni-Gavage \& Rosini, Comput. Math. Appl. 2009], which aims at a deeper understanding of a basic model for propagating phase boundaries that was proved to admit surface waves…
In many problems, the scattering amplitudes of weak coherent pulse are almost equivalent to the ones of single propagating photon. We thoroughly compare the scattering of: (i) short microwave coherent pulse from rf generator and (ii)…
A recently developed method has been extended to a nonlocal equation arising in steady water wave propagation in two dimensions. We obtain analyic approximation of steady water wave solution in two dimensions with rigorous error bounds for…
We have observed the ultraslow propagation of matched pulses in nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a hot atomic vapor. Probe pulses as short as 70 ns can be delayed by a tunable time of up to 40 ns with little broadening or distortion.…
In this overview paper, we show existence of smooth solitary-wave solutions to the nonlinear, dispersive evolution equations of the form \begin{equation*} \partial_t u + \partial_x(\Lambda^s u + u\Lambda^r u^2) = 0, \end{equation*} where…
We study the propagation of femtosecond light pulses inside an optical fiber medium exhibiting higher-order dispersion and cubic-quintic nonlinearities. Pulse evolution in such system is governed by a higher-order nonlinear Schr%…
In this paper we consider an acoustic problem of wave propagation through a discontinuous medium. The problem is reduced to the dissipative wave equation with distributional dissipation. We show that this problem has a so-called very weak…
A time-domain approach is proposed for the propagation of ultrashort electro- magnetic wave packets beyond the paraxial and the slowly-varying-envelope approximations. An analytical method based on perturbation theory is used to solve the…
Existence of self-similar, superposed pulse-train solutions of the nonlinear, coupled Maxwell-Schr\"odinger equations, with the frequencies controlled by the oscillator strengths of the transitions, is established. Some of these excitations…
In this article, we use the general theory derived in the companion paper [M. Tacu and D. B\'enisti, Phys. Plasmas (2021)] in order to address several long-standing issues regarding nonlinear electron plasma waves (EPW's). First, we discuss…
Wave propagation is a common occurrence in all of physics. A linear approximation provides a simpler way to describe various fields related to observable phenomena in laboratory physics as well as astronomy and cosmology, allowing us to…
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)…
The scattering of electromagnetic pulses is described using a non-singular boundary integral method to solve directly for the field components in the frequency domain, and Fourier transform is then used to obtain the complete space-time…
We consider the simplest instabilities involving multiple unstable electrostatic plasma waves corresponding to four-dimensional systems of mode amplitude equations. In each case the coupled amplitude equations are derived up to third order…
The propagation of small amplitude stationary profile nonlinear solitary waves in a pair plasma is investigated employing the reductive perturbation technique via well-known Korteweg de Vries (KdV) and modified KdV (mKdV) equations, we tend…
It is demonstrated in this paper that the propagation of the electric wave field in a heterogeneous medium in 3D can sometimes be governed well by a single PDE, which is derived from the Maxwell's equations. The corresponding component of…
A theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in a weakly anisotropic smoothly inhomogeneous medium is developed, based on the quantum-mechanical diagonalization procedure applied to Maxwell equations. The equations of motion for the…
Five methods of calculating electrical field distributions in one dimensional wave-guide arrays are reviewed. We analytically solve the scalar Helmholtz Equation and, based on the computed Bloch functions and associated bands of propagation…