Short intense laser pulses with phase singularity propagating in narrow-gap semiconductors are modeled. The saturating nonlinearity is a prerequisite for self-organization of pulses into solitons. The cubic-quintic saturation appears due to the conduction-band nonparabolicity in synergy with the free carriers excitation through two-photon absorption. The pulse stability analyzed using Lyapunov's method is confirmed by numerical simulations. Depending of its power, a singular Gaussian pulse far from equilibrium either filaments or subsequently coalesces evolving toward vortex soliton. Above breaking power, such a vortex soliton resists to azimuthal symmetry-breaking perturbations.

Nonlinear dissipative systems, particularly optical dissipative solitons are well described by complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. Solutions of twoand three-dimensional complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation assuming exponential dependence on propagation parameter are studied. Approximate analytical stationary solutions of cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation are found by solving systems of ordinary differential equations. We are solving two-point boundary problems using adapted shooting method. Stable and unstable branches of the bifurcation diagram are identified using linear stability analysis. In this way we established conditions for generation and propagation of stable dissipative solitons in two and three dimensions. These results are in agreement with numerical simulation of cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation and the recently established approach based on variational method generalized to dissipative systems and therein established stability criterion.