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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Dissipative Solitons: From Optics to Biology and Medicine
  name:
    name part: Ankiewicz, Adrian.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Akhmediev, Nail.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 479 p. 349 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The dissipative soliton concept is a fundamental extension of the concept of solitons in conservative and integrable systems. It includes ideas from three major sources, namely standard soliton theory developed since the 1960s, nonlinear dynamics theory, and Prigogine's ideas of systems far from equilibrium. These three sources also correspond to the three component parts of this novel paradigm. This book explains the above principles in detail and gives the reader various examples from optics, biology and medicine. These include laser systems, optical transmission lines, cortical networks, models of muscle contraction, localized vegetation structures and waves in brain tissues.
  table of contents: Three Sources and Three Component Parts of the Concept of Dissipative Solitons -- Solitons in Viscous Flows -- Cavity Solitons in Semiconductor Devices -- Dissipative Solitons in Laser Systems with Non-Local and Non-Instantaneous Nonlinearity -- Excitability Mediated by Dissipative Solitons in Nonlinear Optical Cavities -- Temporal Soliton #x201C;Molecules#x201D; in Mode-Locked Lasers: Collisions, Pulsations, and Vibrations -- Compounds of Fiber-Optic Solitons -- Dissipative Nonlinear Structures in Fiber Optics -- Three-Wave Dissipative Brillouin Solitons -- Spatial Dissipative Solitons Under Convective and Absolute Instabilities in Optical Parametric Oscillators -- Discrete Breathers with Dissipation -- Anharmonic Oscillations, Dissipative Solitons and Non-Ohmic Supersonic Electric Transport -- Coherent Optical Pulse Dynamics in Nano-composite Plasmonic Bragg Gratings -- Collective Focusing and Modulational Instability of Light and Cold Atoms -- On Vegetation Clustering, Localized Bare Soil Spots and Fairy Circles -- Propagation of Traveling Pulses in Cortical Networks -- Wave Phenomena in Neuronal Networks -- Spiral Waves and Dissipative Solitons in Weakly Excitable Media.
  note: edited by Adrian Ankiewicz, Nail Akhmediev.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Neurobiology
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum optics
  subject:
    topic: Lasers
  subject:
    topic: Photonics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Laser Technology, Photonics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Optics
  subject:
    topic: Neurobiology
  subject:
    topic: Applications of Mathematics
  classification: TA1671-1707
  classification: TA1501-1820
  classification: 621.36
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Physics, 751
  identifier: 9783540782179
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78217-9
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204163004.0
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