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Title

Optical solitons : theoretical challenges and industrial perspectives : Les Houches workshop, September 28-October 2, 1998 / editors, V.E. Zakharov, S. Wabnitz.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Les Ulis, France ; Cambridge, MA : EDP Sciences, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Wabnitz, S.
• Zakharov, V. E. (Vladimir Evgenʹevich)

Description

xvii, 384 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Centre de Physique des Houches ; 12

Uniform Title

Centre de physique des Houches (Series) ; 12.

Subject

• Optical fibers > Congresses
• Solitons > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "This book contains a set of lectures that were presented at a Les Houches school on optical solitons in September 1998"--P. iii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Lecture 1. Fundamentals of Optical Soliton Theory in Fibers / A. Hasegawa -- Lecture 2. Hamiltonian Theory of Backlund Transformation / V. G. Marikhin and A. B. Shabat -- Lecture 3. Stability of Solitons / E. A. Kuznetsov -- Lecture 4. Chaotic Dynamics of Optical Solitons / F. Kh. Abdullaev -- Lecture 5. Variationalism and Empirio-Criticism. (Exact and Variational Approaches to Fibre Optics Equations) / A. V. Mikhailov -- Lecture 6. Propagation of Optical Pulses in Nonlinear Systems with Varying Dispersion / V. E. Zakharov -- Lecture 7. Dispersion-Managed Solitons / S. K. Turitsyn, N. J. Doran and J. H. B. Nijhof / [et al.] -- Lecture 8. Dispersion-Managed Solitons: Applications to Terabit/s Transmission over Transoceanic Distances / T. Georges -- Lecture 9. Nonlinear Pulses in Ultra-Fast Optical Communications / V. Cautaerts, Y. Kodama and A. Maruta / [et al.] -- Lecture 10. Soliton Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing System: From Numerical Design to Recirculating Loop Experiments / J.-P. Hamaide, B. Biotteau and F. Pitel / [et al.] -- Lecture 11. Mode-Locked Fiber Ring Lasers and Fiber Ring Memories / H. A. Haus -- Lecture 12. Modulational Instabilities in Passive Cavities: Theory and Experiment / M. Haelterman and S. Coen -- Lecture 13. Recent Developments in the Theory of Optical Gap Solitons / S. Trillo, C. Conti and A. de Rossi / [et al.] -- Lecture 14. Vector Modulational Instabilities and Soliton Experiments / G. Millot, S. Pitois and E. Seve / [et al.] -- Lecture 15. Transient Raman Amplification / J. Leon and A. V. Mikhailov -- Lecture 16. Self-Structuration of Tree-Wave Dissipative Solitons in CW-Pumped Optical Cavities / C. Montes, A. Picozzi and M. Haelterman -- Lecture 17. The Description of the Ultrashort Pulse Propagation in Non-Linear Media Under Quasi-Resonance Condition / A. I. Maimitsov -- Lecture 18. Bright Spatial Soliton Interactions / G. I. Stegeman and M. Segev.
• Lecture 19. Spatial Solitons in Saturating Nonlinear Materials / B. Luther-Davies, V. Tikhonenko and J. Christou / [et al.] -- Lecture 20. Discrete Solitons in Nonlinear Waveguide Arrays / F. Lederer and J. S. Aitchison -- Lecture 21. Solitons in Cavities with Quadratic Nonlinearities / W. E. Torruellas, P. S. Jian and S. Trillo / [et al.].

ISBN

• 3540663142 (Springer)
• 2868834108 (EDP Sciences)

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