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Parametrically driven dark solitons

Simon Richard Woodford

Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
University of Cape Town, South Africa

It is well known that bright parametrically driven, damped nonlinear Schrödinger solitons are prone to oscillatory instabilities which set in above a certain driving threshold. In this communication I shall demonstrate that the parametrically driven, damped dark solitons are immune from instabilities throughout their existence region. Furthermore, I shall show that for the undamped case there are two different stable solutions, which are also capable of forming stable complexes. I shall mention some noteworthy characteristics of the interaction of these different solutions.


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