Light bullets in the spatiotemporal nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a variable negative diffraction coefficient Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report approximate analytical solutions to the (3+1)-dimensional spatiotemporal nonlinear Schrdinger equation, with the uniform self-focusing nonlinearity and a variable negative radial diffraction coefficient, in the form of three-dimensional solitons. The model may be realized in artificial optical media, such as left-handed materials and photonic crystals, with the anomalous sign of the group-velocity dispersion (GVD). The same setting may be realized through the interplay of the self-defocusing nonlinearity, normal GVD, and positive variable diffraction. The Hartree approximation is utilized to achieve a suitable separation of variables in the model. Then, an inverse procedure is introduced, with the aim to select a suitable profile of the modulated diffraction coefficient supporting desirable soliton solutions (such as dromions, single- and multilayer rings, and multisoliton clusters). The validity of the analytical approximation and stability of the solutions is tested by means of direct simulations. 2011 American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

  • Zhong, W., Belic, M., Assanto, G., Malomed, B. A., & Huang, T.

citation count

  • 32

complete list of authors

  • Zhong, Wei-Ping||Belić, Milivoj||Assanto, Gaetano||Malomed, Boris A||Huang, Tingwen

publication date

  • October 2011