1. Preface

   EditorialNotes Pages: 839 - 840

2. Introduction to solitons

   • Miki Wadati

   Fundamental Aspects of Solitons, Fibre Optics And Nonlinear Materials Pages: 841 - 847

3. Optical fiber communication—An overview

   • M Arumugam

   Fundamental Aspects of Solitons, Fibre Optics And Nonlinear Materials Pages: 849 - 869

4. Fundamentals of nonlinear optical materials

   • D Arivuoli

   Fundamental Aspects of Solitons, Fibre Optics And Nonlinear Materials Pages: 871 - 883

5. Shape changing collisions of optical solitons, universal logic gates and partially coherent solitons in coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

   • M Lakshmanan
   • T Kanna

   Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 885 - 916

6. A variational approach to nonlinear evolution equations in optics

   • D Anderson
   • M Lisak
   • A Berntson

   Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 917 - 936

7. Periodic wavetrains for systems of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

   • Kwok W Chow
   • Derek WC Lai

   Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 937 - 952

8. Completely integrable models of nonlinear optics

   • Andrey I Maimistov

   Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 953 - 968

9. Bistable soliton states and switching in doubly inhomogeneously doped fiber couplers

   • Ajit Kumar

   Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 969 - 979

10. Stable complex solitary waves of Sasa Satsuma equation

    • Sasanka Ghosh

    Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 981 - 985

11. Nonlinear compression of optical solitons

    • MN Vinoj
    • VC Kuriakose

    Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 987 - 1001

12. Soliton models in resonant and nonresonant optical fibers

    • K Porsezian

    Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 1003 - 1039

13. Spinning solitons in cubic-quintic nonlinear media

    • Lucian-Cornel Crasovan
    • Boris A Malomed
    • Dumitru Mihalache

    Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 1041 - 1059

14. Stable helical solitons in optical media

    • Boris A Malomed
    • G D Peng
    • Rowland A Sammut

    Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 1061 - 1078

15. Self-trapped optical beams: Spatial solitons

    • Andrey A Sukhorukov
    • Yuri S Skivshar

    Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 1079 - 1095

16. Soliton-based ultra-high speed optical communications

    • Akira Hasegawa

    Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 1097 - 1127

17. Spatiotemporal solitons in quadratic nonlinear media

    • Frank W Wise

    Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 1129 - 1138

18. Spatial solitons in nonlinear liquid waveguides

    • R Barillé
    • G Rivoire

    Theoretical Aspects Of Optical Solitons Pages: 1139 - 1161