Abstract
We study the formation and interaction of spatial dark optical solitons in materials with a nonlocal nonlinear response. We show that unlike in local materials, where dark solitons typically repel, the nonlocal nonlinearity leads to a long-range attraction and formation of stable bound states of dark solitons.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
Elena A. Ostrovskaya, Yuri S. Kivshar, Zhigang Chen, and Mordechai Segev
Opt. Lett. 24(5) 327-329 (1999)
Elena A. Ostrovskaya and Yuri S. Kivshar
Opt. Lett. 23(16) 1268-1270 (1998)
Zhongxiang Zhou, Yanwei Du, Chunfeng Hou, Hao Tian, and Ying Wang
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(6) 1583-1590 (2011)