title: Optical solitary waves induced by cross-phase modulation.
abstract: We show that an optical pulse can propagate undistorted as a bright solitary wave in the normal dispersion regime when it couples through cross-phase modulation to a dark pulse in the anomalous dispersion regime.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Trillo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wabnitz
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Stegeman