TIME-DOMAIN BELTRAMI-MAXWELL SOLITONS IN CERTAIN NONLINEAR CHIRAL MEDIA

Authors
BASS FG SLEPYAN GY MAKSIMENKO SA LAKHTAKIA A
Citation
Fg. Bass et al., TIME-DOMAIN BELTRAMI-MAXWELL SOLITONS IN CERTAIN NONLINEAR CHIRAL MEDIA, Microwave and optical technology letters, 9(4), 1995, pp. 218-221
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Microwave and optical technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
08952477
Volume
9
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
218 - 221
Database
ISI
SICI code
0895-2477(1995)9:4<218:TBSICN>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Time-dependent Beltrami fields are used as the basis of a novel phenom enological theory of the self-action of electromagnetic pulses in cert ain nonlinear, isotropic chiral media. A set of coupled nonlinear Schr odinger equations for slow space-time amplitudes is obtained. The spec ific features of some soliton solutions in the chosen chiral medium ar e described and qualitatively compared with those of soliton solutions in nonlinear, anisotropic, achiral dielectric media. (C) 1995 John Wi ley and Sons, Inc.