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Soliton-driven Photonics

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. A. D. Boardman

    1. Joule Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Salford, Salford, UK

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  2. A. P. Sukhorukov

    1. Radiophysics Department, Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 31)

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Table of contents (51 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Spatial Solitons in Modulated Magnetooptic Waveguides

    • A. D. Boardman, M. Xie
    Pages 1-20

  3. Experiments on Quadratic Solitons

    • George I. Stegeman
    Pages 21-39

  4. Spatial Solitons in Liquid Crystals

    • M. A. Karpierz
    Pages 41-57

  5. Magnetic Solitons

    • N. V. Ostrovskaia
    Pages 59-63

  6. Nonlinear Photon Statistics of Pulse Amplification in Optical Fiber Amplifiers

    • G. Kahraman
    Pages 65-68

  7. Evolution of Concentrated Solution of Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations in Regular Non-Uniform Medium

    • Yu. N. Cherkashin, V. A. Eremenko
    Pages 69-72

  8. Observation Nonlinear Effects of a Laser Beam Interaction with Waveguide Photosensitive AgCl-Ag Films

    • E. I. Larionova, L. A. Ageev, V. K. Miloslavsky
    Pages 73-76

  9. Features and Applications of χ(2) Vector Spatial Solitons

    • Giuseppe Leo, Gaetano Assanto
    Pages 77-86

  10. Soliton Transmission through a Single-Mode Fiber

    • M. Aksoy, M. S. Kiliçkaya
    Pages 87-90

  11. Nonparaxial Propagation of Parametric Spatial Solitons

    • R. Petruskevicius
    Pages 91-94

  12. Spatial Solitary-Wave Beams in Kerr-Type Planar Optical Waveguides: Nonparaxial Vector Approach

    • K. Marinov, D. I. Pushkarov, A. Shivarova
    Pages 95-98

  13. Non-Recurrent Periodic Arrays of Spatial Solitons in a Planar Kerr Waveguide

    • C. Cambournac, M. Chauvet, J. M. Dudley, E. Lantz, H. Maillotte
    Pages 99-102

  14. Polarization Properties of the Liquid Crystal Fibers

    • A. SzymaŃska, T. R. WoliŃski
    Pages 103-106

  15. Interactions of Solitary Waves in a Photorefractive, Second-Harmonic Generating Medium

    • A. D. Boardman, W. Ilecki, Y. Liu, A. A. Zharov
    Pages 107-110

  16. Analytical Description of Quadratic Parametric Solitons

    • Andrey A. Sukhorukov
    Pages 111-114

  17. Spatial Solitons in Saturating Nonlinear Optical Materials

    • Barry Luther-Davies
    Pages 115-139

  18. Nonparaxial Solitons

    • A. I. Smirnov, A. A. Zharov
    Pages 141-167

  19. Spatial Solitons in Nonlinear Resonators

    • C. O. Weiss, V. B. Taranenko, M. Vaupel, K. Staliunas, G. Slekys, M. F. H. Tarroja
    Pages 169-210

  20. Two-Color Multistep Cascading — Second-Order Cascading with Two Second-Harmonic Generation Processes

    • S. Saltiel, K. Koynov, Y. Deyanova, Yuri Kivshar
    Pages 211-214
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It is ironic that the ideas ofNewton, which described a beam of light as a stream ofparticles made it difficult for him to explain things like thin film interference. Yet these particles, called 'photons', have caused the adjective 'photonic' to gain common usage, when referring to optical phenomena. The purist might argue that only when we are confronted by the particle nature of light should we use the word photonics. Equally, the argument goes on, only when we are face-to­ face with an integrable system, i. e. one that possesses an infinite number of conserved quantities, should we say soliton rather than solitary wave. Scientists and engineers are pragmatic, however, and they are happy to use the word 'soliton' to describe what appears to be an excitation that is humped, multi­ humped, or localised long enough for some use to be made of it. The fact that such 'solitons' may stick to each other (fuse) upon collision is often something to celebrate for an application, rather than just evidence that, after all, these are not really solitons, in the classic sense. 'Soliton', therefore, is a widely used term with the qualification that we are constantly looking out for deviant behaviour that draws our attention to its solitary wave character. In the same spirit, 'photonics' is a useful generic cover-all noun, even when 'electromagnetic theory' or 'optics' would suffice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Joule Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Salford, Salford, UK

    A. D. Boardman

  • Radiophysics Department, Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    A. P. Sukhorukov

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