Nonlocal dark solitons under competing cubic-quintic nonlinearities
Date
2013-01-01
Authors
Chen, L
Wang, Q
Shen, M
Zhao, H
Lin, Y-Y
Jeng, C-C
Lee, R-K
Krolikowski, Wieslaw
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Optical Society of America
Abstract
We investigate properties of dark solitons under competing nonlocal cubic-local quintic nonlinearities. Analytical results, based on a variational approach and confirmed by direct numerical simulations, reveal the existence of a unique dark soliton solutions with their width being independent of the degree of nonlocality, due to the competing cubic-quintic nonlinearities.
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Keywords: Analytical results; Cubic-quintic nonlinearity; Dark solitons; Nonlocal; Nonlocalities; Quintic nonlinearity; Variational approaches; Nonlinear optics; Solitons
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Optics letters
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