Attraction of nonlocal dark optical solitons
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2004
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Nikolov, Nikola I.
Neshev, Dragomir
Krlikowski, Wieslaw
Bang, Ole
Rasmussen, Jens Juul
Christiansen, Peter L.
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Optical Society of America
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We study the formation and interaction of spatial dark optical solitons in materials with a nonlocal nonlinear response. We show that unlike in local materials, where dark solitons typically repel, the nonlocal nonlinearity leads to a long-range attraction and formation of stable bound states of dark solitons.
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Keywords: Integral equations; Mathematical models; Nonlinear optics; Partial differential equations; Refractive index; Solitons; Dark solitons; Nonlinear refractive index; Nonlinear Schrodinger equation; Optical Kerr effect
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Optics Letters
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