Bright optical beams in weakly nonlocal media: Variational analysis Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We employ a variational technique to describe the propagation of a Gaussian beam in a nonlinear, weakly nonlocal medium and derive the conditions for breathing soliton formation in both one and two transverse dimensions. The reduced one-dimensional results agree quantitatively with known exact nonlocal soliton solutions. We subsequently formulate a simple procedure for estimating the strength of a weak nonlocality and verify its applicability by direct numerical simulations. 2008 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

  • Bezuhanov, K. S., Dreischuh, A. A., & Krolikowski, W.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Bezuhanov, Kaloyan S||Dreischuh, Alexander A||Krolikowski, Wieslaw

publication date

  • March 2008