By
Yuri Kivshar, Research School of Physical Science & Engineering, Canberra, Australia
Govind Agrawal, Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester, NY, USA
Description
The current research into solitons and their use in fiber optic communications is very important to the future of communications. Since
the advent of computer networking and high speed data transmission technology people have been striving to develop faster and more reliable
communications media. Optical pulses tend to broaden over relatively short distances due to dispersion, but solitons on the other hand
are not as susceptible to the effects of dispersion, and although they are subject to losses due to attenuation they can be amplified
without being received and re-transmitted.
This book is the first to provide a thorough overview of optical solitons. The main purpose
of this book is to present the rapidly developing field of Spatial Optical Solitons starting from the basic concepts of light self-focusing
and self-trapping. It will introduce the fundamental concepts of the theory of nonlinear waves and solitons in non-integrated but physically
realistic models of nonlinear optics including their stability and dynamics. Also, it will summarize a number of important experimental
verification of the basic theoretical predictions and concepts covering the observation of self-focusing in the earlier days of nonlinear
optics and the most recent experimental results on spatial solitons, vortex solitons, and soliton interaction & spiraling.
Audience:
Scientists and engineers working in the field of fiber optics and optical communications
