Optical solitons: Perspectives and applications.
This article serves as an introduction to the focus issue on optical solitons. After a short review of the history of solitons and the field of integrable systems, a brief overview of the development of nonlinear optics and optical solitons is provided. Next, the various contributions to this focus issue are presented, and a few separate remarks are devoted to optical communications, where solitons promise to play a decisive role in the next generation of commercial systems. (c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.
Ablowitz
Mark J.
MJ
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Campus Box 526, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0526.
Biondini
Gino
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Ostrovsky
Lev A.
LA