Nonlocal dark solitons under competing cubic-quintic nonlinearities

Opt Lett. 2013 Jan 1;38(1):13-5. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.000013.

Abstract

We investigate properties of dark solitons under competing nonlocal cubic-local quintic nonlinearities. Analytical results, based on a variational approach and confirmed by direct numerical simulations, reveal the existence of a unique dark soliton solutions with their width being independent of the degree of nonlocality, due to the competing cubic-quintic nonlinearities.