OPTICAL SOLITONS IN MULTI-DIMENSIONS WITH SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISPERSION AND NON-KERR LAW NONLINEARITY

Abstract

This paper studies the dynamics of optical solitons in multi-dimensions with spatio-temporal dispersion and non-Kerr law nonlinearity. The integrability aspect is the main focus of this paper. Five different forms of nonlinearity are considered — Kerr law, power law, parabolic law, dual-power law and log law nonlinearity. The traveling wave hypothesis, ansatz approach and the semi-inverse variational principle are the integration tools that are adopted to retrieve the soliton solutions to the governing equation. As a result, several constraint conditions arise out of the integration process and represent necessary conditions for the existence of solitons.