Polarization locking and nonparaxial spatial solitons in media with electronic Kerr nonlinearity

    Authors

    N. V. Vysotina; N. N. Rozanov; V. E. Semenov; V. A. Smirnov; S. V. Fedorov;D. N. Christodoulides

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Spectrosc.

    Keywords

    WAVE-FRONT DISTORTIONS; OPTICAL SOLITONS; INTERNAL-MODES; LIGHT-BEAMS; STABILITY; Optics; Spectroscopy

    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. (c) 2005 Pleiades Publishing, Inc.

    Journal Title

    Optics and Spectroscopy

    Volume

    98

    Issue/Number

    6

    Publication Date

    1-1-2005

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    895

    Last Page

    903

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000230777300018

    ISSN

    0030-400X

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