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- Title
Polarization Locking and Nonparaxial Spatial Solitons in Media with Electronic Kerr Nonlinearity.
- Authors
Vysotina, N. V.; Rozanov, N. N.; Semenov, V. E.; Smirnov, V. A.; Fedorov, S. V.; Christodoulides, D. N.
- Abstract
The polarization structure of nonparaxial spatial solitons in a transparent medium with the electronic mechanism of Kerr nonlinearity is studied theoretically. It is demonstrated analytically in the weak nonparaxiality approximation that the regime of polarization locking, in which all the field components have the same propagation constant, is the only stable regime. Estimates of the rate of transition of the initial metastable regime of rotation of the polarization ellipse to the regime of polarization locking are presented. Based on a numerical solution of the nonlinear Maxwell equations, the presence of the nonparaxial regime of polarization locking is confirmed and the main characteristics of the corresponding spatial solitons are obtained. © 2005 Pleiades Publishing, Inc.
- Subjects
NONLINEAR theories; MAXWELL equations; PARTIAL differential equations; ELECTRONIC systems; SOLITONS; GEOMETRIC connections
- Publication
Optics & Spectroscopy, 2005, Vol 98, Issue 6, p895
- ISSN
0030-400X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/1.1953984