Drift instability of dark solitons in saturable media

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Kivshar, YS
Afanasjev, VV
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[1] Optical Sciences Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
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10.1364/OL.21.001135
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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It is shown that dark solitons display an inherent instability for a strong saturation of the nonlinear refractive index provided that the background intensity exceeds a certain critical value. Such an instability manifests itself as a drift of a black soliton that transform into a gray soliton and radiation. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America
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