Abstract
Experimental results on optical ring dark solitary wave dynamics are presented, emphasizing the interplay between initial dark beam contrast, total phase shift, background-beam intensity, and saturation of the nonlinearity. The results are found to confirm qualitatively the existing analytical theory and are in agreement with the numerical simulations carried out.
- Received 10 September 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.066611
©2002 American Physical Society
