Sørensen MP, Webb GM, Brio M, Moloney JV. Kink shape solutions of the Maxwell-Lorentz system.
Phys Rev E 2005;
71:036602. [PMID:
15903600 DOI:
10.1103/physreve.71.036602]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2003] [Revised: 11/03/2004] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
In the limit of high amplitude oscillating electromagnetic fields, a sequence of kink antikink shaped optical waves has been found in the Maxwell's equations coupled to a single Lorentz oscillator and with Kerr nonlinearity. The individual kinks and antikinks result from a traveling wave assumption and their stability has been assessed by numerical simulations. For typical physical parameter values the kink width is of the order of tens of femtoseconds.
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