Nonparaxial spatial solitons and propagation-invariant pattern solutions in optical Kerr media.
We investigate nonlinear propagation in the presence of the optical Kerr effect by relying on a rigorous generalization of the standard parabolic equation that includes nonparaxial and vectorial terms. We show that, in the (1 + 1)-D case, both soliton and propagation-invariant pattern solutions exist (while the standard hyperbolic-secant function is not a solution).
Crosignani
Bruno
B
California Institute of Technology 128-95, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. bcross@caltech.edu
Yariv
Amnon
A
Mookherjea
Shayan
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