GENERATION OF DARK SOLITONS

In our earlier work[#ZBD##1###,#ZBE##1###] we discussed the possibility of using an integrated Mach--Zehnder interferometer (MZI) to generate dark solitons with constant background. ...

...Therefore the pulse after the MZI, when properly biased, can have the form

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u(0, t) = a sin[δπ/2 tanh(t)],     (1)