1 2 V. E. Zakharov and S. Wabnitz 1 L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2 Kosygin Str., 117334 Moscow, Russia 2 Laboratoire de Physique, University of Bourgogne, 9 avenue A. Savary, 21078 Dijon, France After about a quarter of a century since the first theoretical predictions of op- tical solitons, the industrial application of the optical soliton concept is near to reality in the booming field of modern telecommunications, where the de- mand for high-speed data transmission and routing is of ever-growing. This book contains a set of lectures that were presented at a Les Houches...