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Published on: December 4, 2017
Generation and nonlinear dynamics of X waves of the Schrödinger equation
1NOOEL, Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Laboratory, National Institute for the Physics of Matter, INFM, University Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy. c.conti@ele.uniroma3.it
Abstract:
The generation of finite-energy packets of X waves is analyzed in normally dispersive cubic media by using an X-wave expansion. The three-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger model is reduced to a one-dimensional equation with anomalous dispersion. Pulse splitting and beam replenishment as observed in experiments with water and Kerr media are explained in terms of a higher-order breathing soliton. The results presented also hold in periodic media and Bose-condensed gases.
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