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Bright optical beams in weakly nonlocal media: variational analysis

Bezuhanov, Kaloyan; Dreischuh, Alexander; Krolikowski, Wieslaw

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We employ a variational technique to describe the propagation of a Gaussian beam in a nonlinear, weakly nonlocal medium and derive the conditions for breathing soliton formation in both one and two transverse dimensions. The reduced one-dimensional results agree quantitatively with known exact nonlocal soliton solutions. We subsequently formulate a simple procedure for estimating the strength of a weak nonlocality and verify its applicability by direct numerical simulations.

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Date published: 2008-03-11
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10440/1016
http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/10440/1016
Source: Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033825

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