Polarized dark solitons in isotropic Kerr media
- 1 April 1997
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 55 (4) , 4773-4782
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.55.4773
Abstract
We characterize dark-type vector optical solitons of arbitrary polarization in isotropic, Kerr-type media by applying Hirota's method to the integrable Manakov model with a defocusing nonlinearity. We find that nonuniformly polarized solitons comprise a rich solution family that can be divided into two categories: dark-dark and dark-bright vector solitons. We consider the propagation dynamics and the interactions of these vector solitons by deriving multisoliton solutions, and show the existence of stationary bound states, a phe- nomenon not observed for scalar dark solitons. @S1063-651X~97!10404-4#Keywords
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