Analytical theory of dark nonlocal solitons

Kong, Qian; Wang, Qi; Bang, Ole; Krolikowski, Wieslaw

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Analytical theory of dark nonlocal solitons

Date

2010-07-01

Authors

Kong, Qian

Wang, Qi

Bang, Ole

Krolikowski, Wieslaw

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Abstract

We investigate properties of dark solitons in nonlocal materials with an arbitrary degree of nonlocality. We employ the variational technique and describe dark solitons, for the first time to our knowledge, in the whole range of degree of nonlocality.