Soliton Management in Periodic Systems

di Boris A. Malomed (Autore)

Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2005

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.

• Autore: Boris A. Malomed
• Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Anno: 2005
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 180 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9780387256351

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