Spatial Solitons

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Trillo, Stefano (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Torruellas, William (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 82
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Quantum optics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Quantum Optics.

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 un...

Table of Contents:

• 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.