Numerical simulation of light structures in bulk ENZ media with Kerr nonlinearity

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Main Author: Ruban, Victor P.
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contents A simplified mathematical model is suggested to describe the dynamics of a quasi-monochromatic optical wave in the bulk of an effectively isotropic metamaterial with averaged dielectrical permittivity near zero (ENZ medium), in the presence of a weak spatial nonuniformity, Kerr nonlinearity as well as linear gain due to external pumping. The model is a vector Ginzburg-Landau equation of the general kind, with the dominating curl-curl term in the dispersive operator, and it resembles the equation for electromagnetic waves in plasma [E. A. Kuznetsov, 1974]. In the case of purely real Kerr coefficients, a split-step Fourier method is appropriate for numerical simulations. It makes possible to observe various variants of nontrivial evolution of both central-symmetric and toroidal vector wave structures trapped by a quadratic potential well, as well as nonlinear interaction between the longitudinal and transverse waves in the case of their combination.
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spellingShingle Numerical simulation of light structures in bulk ENZ media with Kerr nonlinearity
Ruban, Victor P.
Optics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
A simplified mathematical model is suggested to describe the dynamics of a quasi-monochromatic optical wave in the bulk of an effectively isotropic metamaterial with averaged dielectrical permittivity near zero (ENZ medium), in the presence of a weak spatial nonuniformity, Kerr nonlinearity as well as linear gain due to external pumping. The model is a vector Ginzburg-Landau equation of the general kind, with the dominating curl-curl term in the dispersive operator, and it resembles the equation for electromagnetic waves in plasma [E. A. Kuznetsov, 1974]. In the case of purely real Kerr coefficients, a split-step Fourier method is appropriate for numerical simulations. It makes possible to observe various variants of nontrivial evolution of both central-symmetric and toroidal vector wave structures trapped by a quadratic potential well, as well as nonlinear interaction between the longitudinal and transverse waves in the case of their combination.
title Numerical simulation of light structures in bulk ENZ media with Kerr nonlinearity
topic Optics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21400