During the past ten years, there has been intensive development intheoretical and experimental research of solitons in periodic media. Thisbook provides a unique and informative account of the state-of-the-art inthe field. The volume opens with a review of the existence of robustsolitary pulses in systems built as a periodic concatenation of verydifferent elements. Among the most famous examples of this type ofsystems are the dispersion management in fiber-optictelecommunication links, and (more recently) photonic crystals.
During the past ten years, there has been intensive development intheoretical and experimental research of solitons in periodic media. Thisbook provid...
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...
During the past ten years, there has been intensive development in theoretical and experimental research of solitons in periodic media. This book prov...
This volume collects a a number of contributions on spontaneous symmetry breaking. Current studies in this general field are going ahead at a full speed. The book present review chapters which give an overview on the major break throughs of recent years. It covers a number of different physical settings which are introduced when a nonlinearity is added to the underlying symmetric problems and its strength exceeds a certain critical value. The corresponding loss of symmetry, called spontaneous symmetry breaking, alias self-trapping into asymmetric states is extensively discussed in this book....
This volume collects a a number of contributions on spontaneous symmetry breaking. Current studies in this general field are going ahead at a full spe...
This volume collects a a number of contributions on spontaneous symmetry breaking. Current studies in this general field are going ahead at a full speed. The book present review chapters which give an overview on the major break throughs of recent years. It covers a number of different physical settings which are introduced when a nonlinearity is added to the underlying symmetric problems and its strength exceeds a certain critical value. The corresponding loss of symmetry, called spontaneous symmetry breaking, alias self-trapping into asymmetric states is extensively discussed in this book....
This volume collects a a number of contributions on spontaneous symmetry breaking. Current studies in this general field are going ahead at a full spe...