Thresholds for Light Confinement : Theoretical Insights into Self-Trapping of the Entire Spatial Laser Beam in the Nonlinear Medium

Authors

  • R C Chouhan  Microwave Laboratory, Department of Physics, Samara Prithviraj Chauhan Government College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

Keywords:

Nonlinear optics, Nonlinear Schrödinger equation, self-trapping, solitons.

Abstract

A theoretical study for forming self-trapping solitons in the nonlinear medium using the entire transverse spatial characteristics of the intense beam is analysed. Using the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) as the basic equation, conditions for self-action like self-trapping for different types of expressions nonlinearity in various nonlinear mediums are derived using the nonparaxial approach in other media. The results obtained for self-guided beam formation are compared with well-known paraxial theory, providing insights for applications in optical communication and photonic devices.

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2022-05-30

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Volume 9, Issue 3, May-June-2022

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R C Chouhan "Thresholds for Light Confinement : Theoretical Insights into Self-Trapping of the Entire Spatial Laser Beam in the Nonlinear Medium" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 9, Issue 3, pp.133-139, May-June-2022.