Collisions of Light Bullets with Different Circular Polarizations
arXiv:2402.14330 · doi:10.1134/S0021364024600691
Abstract
Collisions of left- and right-polarized spatiotemporal optical solitons have been numerically simulated for a locally isotropic focusing Kerr medium with anomalous chromatic dispersion. The stable propagation of such ``light bullets'' in a moderate nonlinear regime is ensured by a transverse parabolic profile of the refraction index in a multimode waveguide. The transverse motion of centers of mass of wave packets in such systems occurs on classical trajectories of a harmonic oscillator, whereas the motion in the longitudinal direction is uniform. Therefore, collisions of two solitons can be not only head-on but also tangential. An inelastic collision of two solitons with opposite circular polarizations can result either in two binary light bullets combining the left and right polarization or in more complex bound systems. DOI: 10.1134/S0021364024600691
7 pages, 15 figures, in English, to appear as [JETP Lett. 119(8), 585 (2024)]
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