Bifurcations of the dark soliton and polarization domain walls in nonlinear dispersive media
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 49 (5) , 4512-4518
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.49.4512
Abstract
A bifurcation analysis of the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations that govern light propagation in Kerr media reveals the existence of a novel type of vector dark solitary waves. These solutions consist of a localized structure separating two uniform background waves of the same amplitude but opposite circular polarizations and constitute therefore polarization domain walls.Keywords
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