Overview
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A. D. Boardman
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Joule Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Salford, Salford, UK
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A. P. Sukhorukov
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Radiophysics Department, Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Table of contents (51 chapters)
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- Roman R. Malendevich, Hui Fang, Roland Schiek, George I. Stegeman
Pages 219-222
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- Carsten Weilnau, Cornelia Denz, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Matthias Geisser, Glen McCarthy, Barry Luther-Davies et al.
Pages 229-234
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- B. Yellampalle, K. H. Wagner
Pages 235-238
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- O. A. Egorov, A. P. Sukhorukov, I.G. Zakharova
Pages 239-243
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- I. V. Shadrivov, A. A. Zharov
Pages 257-260
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- Zhigang Chen, Jill Klinger, Hector Martin
Pages 261-265
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- Gaetano Assanto, Claudio Conti, Stefano Trillo
Pages 267-291
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- K. Marinov, D. I. Pushkarov, A. Shivarova
Pages 293-316
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- Lars Friedrich, Roman R. Malendevich, George I. Stegeman, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Nail N. Akhmediev, J. Stewart Aitchison
Pages 317-320
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- A. V. Pimenov, A. P. Sukhorukov
Pages 321-324
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- V. A. Eremenko, Yu. N. Cherkashin
Pages 325-328
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- M. Chauvet, C. Cambournac, S. Chauvin, H. Maillotte
Pages 329-332
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- P. Khadzhi, O. Tatarinskaya, O. Orlov
Pages 333-337
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- I. A. Molotkov, N. I. Manaenkova
Pages 339-342
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- A. D. Boardman, Y. Liu, W. Ilecki
Pages 343-346
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- D. A. Chuprakov, X. Lu, A. P. Sukhorukov
Pages 347-350
About this book
It is ironic that the ideas ofNewton, which described a beam of light as a stream ofparticles made it difficult for him to explain things like thin film interference. Yet these particles, called 'photons', have caused the adjective 'photonic' to gain common usage, when referring to optical phenomena. The purist might argue that only when we are confronted by the particle nature of light should we use the word photonics. Equally, the argument goes on, only when we are face-to face with an integrable system, i. e. one that possesses an infinite number of conserved quantities, should we say soliton rather than solitary wave. Scientists and engineers are pragmatic, however, and they are happy to use the word 'soliton' to describe what appears to be an excitation that is humped, multi humped, or localised long enough for some use to be made of it. The fact that such 'solitons' may stick to each other (fuse) upon collision is often something to celebrate for an application, rather than just evidence that, after all, these are not really solitons, in the classic sense. 'Soliton', therefore, is a widely used term with the qualification that we are constantly looking out for deviant behaviour that draws our attention to its solitary wave character. In the same spirit, 'photonics' is a useful generic cover-all noun, even when 'electromagnetic theory' or 'optics' would suffice.
Editors and Affiliations
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Joule Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Salford, Salford, UK
A. D. Boardman
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Radiophysics Department, Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
A. P. Sukhorukov