A particular solution of the equations for the propagation of a light beam in a bulk refractive medium is a bright stripe soliton with initial conditions that satisfy the saturable Kerr-like nonlinearity equation. When propagated numerically, this stripe soliton is unstable and decays into a set of filaments. The maximum intensity of a single filament is outputted at every propagation step and the subsequent data set is analyzed for low order chaotic behavior.

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Creator

• Matos, Antonio Paul

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 99A003M

Advisor

• Zozulya, Alex A.

Year

• 1999

Date created

• 1999-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Physics

Rights statement

• In Copyright