On the existence of the nonlinear leaky TE-polarized waves in a metal–dielectric cylindrical waveguide

We consider propagation of leaky waves in the Goubau line (a perfectly conducting cylinder covered by a concentric dielectric layer) filled with nonlinear inhomogeneous medium. The problem is reduced to the analysis of a nonlinear integral equation with a kernel in the form of the Green’s function of an auxiliary boundary value problem on an interval. The existence of propagating nonlinear leaky waves for the chosen nonlinearity (Kerr law) is proved using the method of contraction. Conditions under which a finite number of waves can propagate are obtained and the intervals of localization of the corresponding propagation constants are determined. For the numerical solution, a method based on solving an auxiliary Cauchy problem (a version of the shooting method) is proposed. In numerical experiments, two types of nonlinearities are considered and compared: Kerr nonlinearity and nonlinearity with saturation. New propagation regimes are discovered. •Phenomenon of Nonlinear Leaky TE polarized electromagnetic wave propagation is considered.•The problem is formulated with physically realistic conditions.•An original analytic approach is used to study the problem.•It is proved the existence of a novel (nonlinear) guided regime.•Numerical results.