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Soliton propagation in a medium with Kerr nonlinearity and resonant impurities: a variational approach
D P Caetano1, S B Cavalcanti, J M Hickmann
1Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Cidade Universitária, AL 57072-970 Maceió, Brazil.
Abstract:
Using a variational approach we have studied the shape preserving coherent propagation of light pulses in a resonant dispersive medium in the presence of the Kerr nonlinearity. Within the framework of a combined nonintegrable system composed of one nonlinear Schrödinger and a pair of Bloch equations, we show the existence of a solitary wave. We have tested our analytical solution through numerical simulations confirming its solitary wave nature.
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