THREE-DIMENSIONAL LIGHT BULLETS IN CUBIC–QUINTIC MEDIA STABILIZED BY PERIODIC VARIATION OF DIFFRACTION AND DISPERSION

Abstract

We propose a dispersion-managed model with diffraction management for the stabilization of three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in bulk cubic–quintic media. The cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with periodically varying dispersion and diffraction has been studied using analytical and numerical methods. Variational analysis and the Kapitsa averaging method have been used to study the system analytically. The study has shown that periodically varying coefficients of diffraction and dispersion stabilizes the spatiotemporal solitons in cubic–quintic media.