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Spatial Solitons

  • Stefano Trillo
  • William Torruellas
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Part of the Springer Series in Optical Sciences book series (SSOS, volume 82)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XX
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  2. Introduction to Spatial Solitons
    Raymond Y. Chiao
    Pages 1-18
  3. Materials for Spatial Solitons
    Barry Luther-Davies, George I. Stegeman
    Pages 19-35
  4. One-Dimensional Spatial Solitons in Kerr Media
    Yaron Silberberg, George I. Stegeman
    Pages 37-60
  5. Photorefractive Spatial Solitons
    Eugenio DelRe, Bruno Crosignani, Paolo Di Porto
    Pages 61-85
  6. Incoherent Solitons: Self-Trapping of Weakly Correlated Wavepackets
    Mordechai Segev, Demetrios N. Christodoulides
    Pages 87-125
  7. Quadratic Solitons
    William Torruellas, Yuri S. Kivshar, George I. Stegeman
    Pages 127-168
  8. Bragg Solitons: Theory and Experiments
    C. Martijn de Sterke, Benjamin J. Eggleton, John E. Sipe
    Pages 169-209
  9. Stability of Spatial Optical Solitons
    Yuri S. Kivshar, Andrey A. Sukhorukov
    Pages 211-245
  10. Nonlinear Wave Collapse
    Luc Bergé
    Pages 247-267
  11. Discrete Solitons
    Falk Lederer, Sergey Darmanyan, Andrey Kobyakov
    Pages 269-292
  12. Optical Vortex Solitons
    Grover A. Swartzlander Jr.
    Pages 293-310
  13. Solitons of the Complex Ginzburg—Landau Equation
    Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz
    Pages 311-341
  14. Existence, Stability, and Properties of Cavity Solitons
    William J. Firth, Graeme K. Harkness
    Pages 343-358
  15. Parametric Solitons in Passive Structures with Feedback
    Stefano Trillo, Marc Haelterman
    Pages 359-393
  16. Spatial Solitons in Resonators
    Carl O. Weiss, Gintas Slekys, Victor B. Taranenko, Kestutis Staliunas, Robert Kuszelewicz
    Pages 395-416
  17. Nonlinear Magneto-Optic Solitons
    Allan D. Boardman, Ming Xie
    Pages 417-432
  18. Coupled Propagation of Light and Matter Waves: Solitons and Transverse Instabilities
    Mark Saffman, Dmitry V. Skryabin
    Pages 433-447
  19. Back Matter
    Pages 449-457
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About this book

Introduction

Soliton-based concepts open the road for newly designed laser sources, new frequency converters and high-intensity laser-material interactions. Optical solitons as stable spatial patterns of complex nonlinear systems allow for the control of the diffraction of optical beams. Solitons also prevent unwanted chaotic behavior. Thus, solitary wave physics plays a significant role from modern optical physics to optical communication, optical switching, and optical storage. The book gives an updated overview of optical solitons and can serve as a reference and guide for advanced students and scientists working in the field and related areas of science where solitons are observed.

Keywords

Spatial solitons diffraction laser laser physics optical communication optical solitons wave

Editors and affiliations

  • Stefano Trillo
    • 1
  • William Torruellas
    • 2
  1. 1.Dipartimento di IngeneriaUniversity of FerraraFerraraItaly
  2. 2.Corvis CorporationColumbiaUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44582-1
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-3-642-07498-1
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-44582-1
  • Series Print ISSN 0342-4111
  • Series Online ISSN 1556-1534
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