Optical solitons: perspectives and applications (Q5890369)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Contents: Mark J. Ablowitz, Gino Biondini and Lev A. Ostrovsky, Optical solitons: perspectives and applications (471-474); Akira Hasegawa, An historical review of application of optical solitons for high speed communications (475-485); Masataka Nakazawa, Hirokazu Kubota, Kazunori Suzuki, Eiichi Yamada and Akio Sahara, Recent progress in soliton transmission technology (486-514); Vincent Cautaerts, Akihiro Maruta and Yuji Kodama, On the dispersion managed soliton (515-528); Y. Chen and H. A. Haus, Manakov solitons and polarization mode dispersion (529-538); T. I. Lakoba and Dmitry E. Pelinovsky, Persistent oscillations of scalar and vector dispersion-managed solitons (539-550); E. M. Gromov and V. I. Talanov, Short optical solitons in fibers (551-558); J. V. Moloney, M. Kolesik, M. Mlejnek and E. M. Wright, Femtosecond self-guided atmospheric light strings (559-569); Steve Blair, Nonparaxial one-dimensional spatial solitons (570-583); Alejandro B. Aceves, Optical gap solitons: past, present, and future; theory and experiments (584-589); Stefano Trillo, Claudio Conti, Gaetano Assanto and Alexander V. Buryak, From parametric gap solitons to chaos by means of second-harmonic generation in Bragg gratings (590-599); Nail Akhmediev and Adrian Ankiewicz, Multi-soliton complexes (600-612); Steven T. Cundiff, Brandon C. Collings and Keren Bergman, Polarization locked vector solitons and axis instability in optical fiber (613-624); N.-C. Panoiu, D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, L.-C. Crasovan, I. V. Melnikov and F. Lederer, Soliton dynamics of symmetry-endowed two-soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (625-640).