Abstract
During the past ten years, there has been intensive development in theoretical and experimental research of solitons in periodic media. This book provides a unique and informative account of the state-of-the-art in the field. The volume opens with a review of the existence of robust solitary pulses in systems built as a periodic concatenation of very different elements. Among the most famous examples of this type of systems are the dispersion management in fiber-optic telecommunication links, and (more recently) photonic crystals. A number of other systems belonging to the same broad class of spatially periodic strongly inhomogeneous media (such as the split-step and tandem models) have recently been identified in nonlinear optics, and transmission of solitary pulses in them was investigated in detail. Similar soliton dynamics occurs in temporal-domain counterparts of such systems, where they are subject to strong time-periodic modulation (for instance, the Feshbach-resonance management in Bose-Einstein condensates). Basis results obtained for all these systems are reviewed in the book. This timely work will serve as a useful resource for the soliton community.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Springer US |
Number of pages | 180 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 0387256350, 0387293345, 128061868X, 9780387256351, 9786610618682 |
ISBN (Print) | 0387256350, 9780387256351 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2006 |
ULI Keywords
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- Solitons
- Pulses, Solitary wave
- Solitary wave pulses
- Wave pulses, Solitary