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Influence of nonlocality on the polarization dynamics of an electric field pulse in a medium with cubic nonlinearity is under study. Nonlinear equations are solved using a variational approach. It is shown that nonlocal and chiral effects cause trajectory oscillations and nonlinear polarization rotation of soliton pulses of the field.
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Avtometriya, 2019, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 87–93.
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Zabolotskii, A.A. Influence of Response Nonlocality of a Medium on Soliton Polarization. Optoelectron.Instrument.Proc. 55, 606–611 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S8756699019060116
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