Chains of temporal dark solitons in dispersion-managed fiber.
Attractive interaction of dark dispersion-managed (DM) solitons is observed numerically. For certain initial separations chains of bound dark DM solitons are found. The chains can have various lengths (up to 12 solitons are shown), and the nearest-neighbor separations can take several values-all the same or mixed.
Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
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