Analytical light bullet solutions to the generalized (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Sep 19;101(12):123904. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.123904. Epub 2008 Sep 16.

Abstract

We obtain exact spatiotemporal periodic traveling wave solutions to the generalized (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients. We utilize these solutions to construct analytical light bullet soliton solutions of nonlinear optics.