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Light bullets in coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations with variable coefficients and a trapping potential.

Si-Liu Xu, Guo-Peng Zhao, Milivoj R Belić

    Optics Express
    |April 26, 2017
    PubMed
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    Researchers explored stable three-dimensional (3D) vector solitary waves, or light bullets, in nonlinear systems. Only low-order vortex soliton pairs demonstrated stability within a composite trap, while higher-order ones proved unstable.

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