Two-dimensional dispersion-managed light bullets in Kerr media

M. Matuszewski*, M. Trippenbach, B. A. Malomed, E. Infeld, A. A. Skorupski

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Abstract

We propose a scheme for stabilizing spatiotemporal solitons (STSs) in media with cubic self-focusing nonlinearity and “dispersion management”, i.e., a layered structure inducing periodically alternating normal and anomalous group-velocity dispersion. We develop a variational approximation for the STS, and verify results by direct simulations. A stability region for the two-dimensional (2D) STS (corresponding to a planar waveguide) is identified. At the borders between this region and that of decay of the solitons, a more sophisticated stable object, in the form of a periodically oscillating bound state of two subpulses, is also found. In the 3D case (bulk medium), all the spatiotemporal pulses spread out or collapse.

Original languageEnglish
Article number016603
Pages (from-to)016603-1-016603-6
JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics
Volume70
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2004

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