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The dynamics of a laser pulse, either with or without phase singularity in media with cubic-quintic nonlinearity, is studied. The stability and the robustness of light bullets predicted by variational approach are confirmed by numerical simulations. Singular beam reaching equilibrium with the power larger than the breaking one, becomes vortex soliton, otherwise it breaks into two filaments running away tangentially. Far from equilibrium pulses with large width may, due to the modulation instability, break into many filaments coalescing and splitting subsequently.
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Skarka, V., Aleksic, N.B., Berezhiani, V.I. (2004). Optical Pulse Evolution Toward Light Bullet and Vortex Solution. In: Abdullaev, F.K., Konotop, V.V. (eds) Nonlinear Waves: Classical and Quantum Aspects. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 153. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2190-9_28
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