Dissipative Solitons: From Optics to Biology and Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ankiewicz, Adrian (Editor), Akhmediev, Nail (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 751
• Subjects: Physics.; Neurobiology.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Quantum optics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Quantum Optics.; Applications of Mathematics.

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 fro...