Elastic collision and molecule formation of spatiotemporal light bullets in a cubic-quintic nonlinear medium

S. K. Adhikari
Phys. Rev. E 94, 032217 – Published 26 September 2016

Abstract

We consider the statics and dynamics of a stable, mobile three-dimensional (3D) spatiotemporal light bullet in a cubic-quintic nonlinear medium with a focusing cubic nonlinearity above a critical value and any defocusing quintic nonlinearity. The 3D light bullet can propagate with a constant velocity in any direction. Stability of the light bullet under a small perturbation is established numerically. We consider frontal collision between two light bullets with different relative velocities. At large velocities the collision is elastic with the bullets emerge after collision with practically no distortion. At small velocities two bullets coalesce to form a bullet molecule. At a small range of intermediate velocities the localized bullets could form a single entity which expands indefinitely, leading to a destruction of the bullets after collision. The present study is based on an analytic Lagrange variational approximation and a full numerical solution of the 3D nonlinear Schrödinger equation.

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  • Received 9 March 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.032217

©2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Nonlinear Dynamics

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S. K. Adhikari*

  • Instituto de Física Teórica, UNESP–Universidade Estadual Paulista, 01.140-070 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  • *adhikari@ift.unesp.br; http://www.ift.unesp.br/users/adhikari.

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Vol. 94, Iss. 3 — September 2016

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