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Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2018 Volume 48, Number 11, Pages 1023–1026 (Mi qe16930)

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Nonlinear optical phenomena

Angular momentum of elliptically polarised cnoidal waves and breathers in a nonlinear gyrotropic medium with frequency dispersion

V. A. Makarovab, V. M. Petnikovaab

a Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
b International Laser Center of Moscow State University

Abstract: We have analysed expressions for the spin part of the density vector of the angular momentum (moment of momentum) of elliptically polarised cnoidal waves and breathers propagating in an isotropic gyrotropic medium with second order frequency dispersion and spatial cubic nonlinearity dispersion. We have found that, due to nonlinear gyration, the density of the angular momentum depends on time and propagation coordinates.

Keywords: angular momentum of the electromagnetic field, cubic nonlinearity, gyrotropy, optically active medium, cnoidal waves, breathers.

Received: 23.08.2018
Revised: 29.09.2018


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Quantum Electronics, 2018, 48:11, 1023–1026

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