Nematicons

M Peccianti, G Assanto - Physics Reports, 2012 - Elsevier
We review the recent developments of spatial optical solitons in nematic liquid crystals, also
known as Nematicons. We outline their properties, linked to a reorientational nonlinearity in …

Bright and dark optical solitons for (3+ 1)-dimensional hyperbolic nonlinear Schrödinger equation using a variety of distinct schemes

AM Wazwaz, SA El-Tantawy - Optik, 2022 - Elsevier
The current study is dedicated to furnish a class of bright soliton and dark soliton solutions
for the (3+ 1)-dimensional hyperbolic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. In this direction we …

Optical envelope soliton solutions for coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations applicable to high birefringence fibers

AM Wazwaz, W Albalawi, SA El-Tantawy - Optik, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a two coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation (CNLSE) which is applicable to
high birefringence fibers is investigated. We operate a variety of ansatze to derive a variety …

Optical solitons and conservation laws with quadratic-cubic nonlinearity

H Triki, A Biswas, SP Moshokoa, M Belic - Optik, 2017 - Elsevier
We consider an extended nonlinear Schrödinger equation with competing quadratic-cubic
nonlinearity. The model appears as an approximate form of a relatively dense quasi-one …

Self-confined light waves in nematic liquid crystals

G Assanto, NF Smyth - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of light beams propagating in the nonlinear, dispersive, birefringent and nonlocal
medium of nematic liquid crystals has attracted widespread interest in the last twenty years …

Bright and dark modulated optical solitons for a (2+ 1)-dimensional optical Schrödinger system with third-order dispersion and nonlinearity

AM Wazwaz, W Alhejaili, AO AL-Ghamdi… - Optik, 2023 - Elsevier
This work studies the dynamics of an extended nonlinear (2+ 1)-dimensional evolution
Schrödinger equation having third-order nonlinearity and dispersion. We employ distinct …

Optical bright and dark soliton solutions for coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (CNLS) equations by the variational iteration method

AM Wazwaz - Optik, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper studies optical bright and dark soliton solutions for coupled nonlinear
Schrödinger (CNLS) equations in the anomalous and dispersive regimes. We operate the …

Bright and dark optical solitons for (2+ 1)-dimensional Schrödinger (NLS) equations in the anomalous dispersion regimes and the normal dispersive regimes

AM Wazwaz - Optik, 2019 - Elsevier
We operate the variational iteration method (VIM) for obtaining bright and dark optical
solitons for (2+ 1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equations, that appear in the …

Combined optical solitary waves of the Fokas—Lenells equation

H Triki, AM Wazwaz - Waves in Random and Complex Media, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, we investigate the Fokas–Lenells equation describing the propagation of
ultrashort pulses in optical fibers when certain terms of the next asymptotic order beyond …

Optical solitons for nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation in normal dispersive regimes

AM Wazwaz, L Kaur - Optik, 2019 - Elsevier
We operate variational iteration method for obtaining exact analytical solutions for nonlinear
Schrödinger (NLS) equation with normal dispersive regimes. A set of diverse types of …