Solitary electromagnetic waves in non-Kerr-like nonlinear media

Author

Ma, Jian-Guo ; Chen, Zhizhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tech. Univ. Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Canada

Volume

33

Issue

2

fYear

1997

fDate

3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1560

Lastpage

1563

Abstract

Non-Kerr-like nonlinearity is more general and accurate in simulating practical nonlinear materials. In this paper, transmission of electromagnetic solitary waves in non-Kerr-like media with nonlinearity of n~|E|^δ is studied. It is found that for both spatial and temporal solitary waves their governing equations can be generalized with the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. As a result, a solitary solution of the equation is derived in a closed analytic form. The distributions of both temporal and spatial electromagnetic solitons are then obtained in an explicit analytic form

Keywords

Schrodinger equation; electromagnetic wave propagation; electromagnetic wave transmission; solitons; closed analytic form; electromagnetic solitary waves; explicit analytic form; governing equations; nonKerr-like nonlinear media; nonlinear Schrodinger equation; nonlinearity; practical nonlinear materials; solitary electromagnetic waves; spatial solitary waves; temporal solitary wave; transmission; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical solitons; Optical variables control; Refractive index; Schrodinger equation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.582563

Filename

582563