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Spatial Solitons

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Editors:
  1. Stefano Trillo

    1. Dipartimento di Ingeneria, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

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  2. William Torruellas

    1. Corvis Corporation, Columbia, USA

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  • Needed by laser physicists and engineers in optics, optical communication, and optoelectronics
  • Original contributions written by leading experts, even pioneers, in the field
  • Both challenging theoretical problems and exciting experimental results
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 82)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Introduction to Spatial Solitons

    • Raymond Y. Chiao
    Pages 1-18

  3. Materials for Spatial Solitons

    • Barry Luther-Davies, George I. Stegeman
    Pages 19-35

  4. One-Dimensional Spatial Solitons in Kerr Media

    • Yaron Silberberg, George I. Stegeman
    Pages 37-60

  5. Photorefractive Spatial Solitons

    • Eugenio DelRe, Bruno Crosignani, Paolo Di Porto
    Pages 61-85

  6. Incoherent Solitons: Self-Trapping of Weakly Correlated Wavepackets

    • Mordechai Segev, Demetrios N. Christodoulides
    Pages 87-125

  7. Quadratic Solitons

    • William Torruellas, Yuri S. Kivshar, George I. Stegeman
    Pages 127-168

  8. Bragg Solitons: Theory and Experiments

    • C. Martijn de Sterke, Benjamin J. Eggleton, John E. Sipe
    Pages 169-209

  9. Stability of Spatial Optical Solitons

    • Yuri S. Kivshar, Andrey A. Sukhorukov
    Pages 211-245

  10. Nonlinear Wave Collapse

    • Luc Bergé
    Pages 247-267

  11. Discrete Solitons

    • Falk Lederer, Sergey Darmanyan, Andrey Kobyakov
    Pages 269-292

  12. Optical Vortex Solitons

    • Grover A. Swartzlander Jr.
    Pages 293-310

  13. Solitons of the Complex Ginzburg—Landau Equation

    • Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz
    Pages 311-341

  14. Existence, Stability, and Properties of Cavity Solitons

    • William J. Firth, Graeme K. Harkness
    Pages 343-358

  15. Parametric Solitons in Passive Structures with Feedback

    • Stefano Trillo, Marc Haelterman
    Pages 359-393

  16. Spatial Solitons in Resonators

    • Carl O. Weiss, Gintas Slekys, Victor B. Taranenko, Kestutis Staliunas, Robert Kuszelewicz
    Pages 395-416

  17. Nonlinear Magneto-Optic Solitons

    • Allan D. Boardman, Ming Xie
    Pages 417-432

  18. Coupled Propagation of Light and Matter Waves: Solitons and Transverse Instabilities

    • Mark Saffman, Dmitry V. Skryabin
    Pages 433-447

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 449-457
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About this book

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.

Reviews

From the reviews of the first edition:

"This book is the volume 82 in Springer Series ‘Optical Sciences’, which includes invited contributions from the majority of world leading experts and pioneers in the field. … The content of the book covers a wide spectrum of issues concerning the propagation of spatial solitons, ranging from the most challenging theoretical problems to the most exciting experimental achievements to date." (Andrei Mourachkine, Physicalia, Vol. 38 (4), 2002)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Ingeneria, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Stefano Trillo

  • Corvis Corporation, Columbia, USA

    William Torruellas

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spatial Solitons

  • Editors: Stefano Trillo, William Torruellas

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44582-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-41653-1Published: 11 September 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07498-1Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-44582-1Published: 05 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0342-4111

  • Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 460

  • Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Quantum Optics

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