Abstract

We study the generation of dark-pulse solitons in nonlinear-optical fibers in the normal dispersion regime. We demonstrate that dark solitons may be created as pairs by an arbitrary dark pulse without a threshold and obtain the parameters of the generated solitons. The cases of soliton creation by a boxlike dark pulse and a random Gaussian pulse are also described.

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Propagation properties of dark solitons

W. Zhao and E. Bourkoff
Opt. Lett. 14(13) 703-705 (1989)

Dynamics of coupled dark and bright optical solitons

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Interactions between dark solitons

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