Abstract: We demonstrate that a weak defocusing Kerr effect in an optical medium with predominantly quadratic [or $\chi^{(2)}$] nonlinear response can eliminate the parametric modulational instability of plane waves, leading to the existence of stable two-wave dark and vortex Spatial solitons.

Keywords: 2nd-harmonic generation; optical solitons; instability; media; nonlinearities

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