In a field of study that is still in intensive development, this book provides a unique and informative snapshot of the state of the art. The volume opens with a review of the existence of robust solitons and soliton-like solitary pulses in systems built as a periodic concatenation of very different elements. Among the most famous examples are the dispersion management (DM) in fiber-optic telecommunication links, and more recently, photonic crystals. A number of other systems belonging to the same broad class of periodic strongly inhomogeneous systems (such as tandem models, the split-step model, etc.) have recently been investigated in nonlinear optics.

No existing book offers a view similar to that outlined in the information text The main results in this area have been obtained less than ten years ago, and some in just the past few months The area is still in the stage of intensive development, therefore, the book would not be a final summary of the results, but rather a survey of a developing field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Periodically modulated dispersion, and dispersion management: basic results for solitons.- The split-step model.- Nonlinearity management for quadratic, cubic, and Bragg-grating solitons.- Resonant management of one-dimensional solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates.- Management for channel solitons: a waveguiding-antiwaveguiding system.- Stabilization of spatial solitons in bulk Kerr media with alternating nonlinearity.- Stabilization of two-dimensional solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates under Feshbach-resonance management.- Multidimensional dispersion management.- Feshbach-resonance management in optical lattices.