Abstract
We demonstrate that near resonances, e.g. around the band gaps of Bragg gratings, non-solitonic pulses can propagate undistorted. These so-called peakons are stabilized by nonlinearly induced self-phase modulation, which shifts their frequency out of resonance.
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