Abstract
Dark spatial solitons are created when intense quasi-plane waves containing amplitude or phase discontinuities propagate through self-defocusing, Kerr-like media. We show that dark solitons form not only stable waveguides but also structures equivalent to Y-junction splitters and other devices.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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