COUNTER-BALANCE OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR-OPTICAL ACTIVITY FOR SOLITON-LIKE PULSES

The problem of temporal soliton propagation in a nonlinear Kerr medium with natural optical activity is considered. The evolution of the sta te of polarization of the soliton is described using the Stokes parame ters. It is shown that due to the balance between the nonlinear optica l activity and linear gyrotropy a special class of stationary elliptic ally polarized solitons appears.