Abstract
A three-dimensional soliton model of photon with corpuscular and wave properties is proposed. We consider the Maxwell equations and assume that light induces the polarization and magnetization of vacuum only along the direction of its propagation. The nonlinear equation constructed for the vector potential is similar to the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation and comprises a dimensionless constant μ that determines the size-scale of soliton and is expected to be small. The obtained one-soliton solution of the proposed nonlinear equation describes a three-dimensional object identified as photon.