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.

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Solitary wave physics plays a significant role from modern optical physics to optical communication, optical switching and optical storage. This book gives an updated overview of optical solitons, as a reference and guide for advanced students and scientists working in the field.

Inhalt

to Spatial Solitons.- Materials for Spatial Solitons.- One-Dimensional Spatial Solitons in Kerr Media.- Photorefractive Spatial Solitons.- Incoherent Solitons: Self-Trapping of Weakly Correlated Wavepackets.- Quadratic Solitons.- Bragg Solitons: Theory and Experiments.- Stability of Spatial Optical Solitons.- Nonlinear Wave Collapse.- Discrete Solitons.- Optical Vortex Solitons.- Solitons of the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation.- Existence, Stability, and Properties of Cavity Solitons.- Parametric Solitons in Passive Structures with Feedback.- Spatial Solitons in Resonators.- Nonlinear Magneto-Optic Solitons.- Coupled Propagation of Light and Matter Waves: Solitons and Transverse Instabilities.