Title

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

Authors

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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