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Temporal and Spatial Solitons: An Overview

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Beam Shaping and Control with Nonlinear Optics

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series: B: ((NSSB,volume 369))

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This chapter contains a fundamental review of envelope temporal and spatial solitons. A substantial effort has been made to give an account of both the historical background and the physical concepts. Mathematical detail is given to justify the generic nonlinear equations and guide to the inverse scattering method is presented.

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    A D Boardman, P Bontemps, T Koutoupes & K Xie

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Boardman, A.D., Bontemps, P., Koutoupes, T., Xie, K. (2002). Temporal and Spatial Solitons: An Overview. In: Kajzar, F., Reinisch, R. (eds) Beam Shaping and Control with Nonlinear Optics. NATO Science Series: B:, vol 369. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47079-9_7

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