Stability of black solitons in media with arbitrary nonlinearity
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 21 (7) , 462-464
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.21.000462
Abstract
It is shown that the black solitons in an optical fiber or a uniform medium with arbitrary nonlinearity are all stable. The conclusion from the analytical stability analysis is consistent with that of numerical simulations. This then dismisses a previous criterion that suggests that the black solitons in a saturable nonlinear medium can be unstable.Keywords
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