Temporal incoherent solitons supported by a defocusing nonlinearity with anomalous dispersion
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چکیده
We study temporal incoherent solitons in noninstantaneous response nonlinear media. Contrarily to the usual temporal soliton, which is known to require a focusing nonlinearity with anomalous dispersion, we show that a highly noninstantaneous nonlinear response leads to incoherent soliton structures which require the inverted situation: In the focusing regime (and anomalous dispersion) the incoherent wave-packet experiences an unlimited spreading, whereas in the defocusing regime (still with anomalous dispersion) the incoherent wave-packet exhibits a self-trapping. These counterintuitive results are explained in detail by a long-range Vlasov formulation of the problem.
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