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A nonstationary model that relies on the spatial nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation with the time-dependent refractive index describes laser beams in photopolymers. We consider a toy problem, when the rate of change of refractive index is proportional to the squared amplitude of the electric field and the spatial domain is a plane. After formal derivation of the NLS approximation from a two-dimensional quasilinear wave equation, we establish local well-posedness of the original and reduced models and perform rigorous justification analysis to control smallness of the approximation error for appropriately small times.
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Pelinovsky, D., Ponomarev, D. Justification of a nonlinear Schrödinger model for laser beams in photopolymers. Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 65, 405–433 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-013-0338-9
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