This article offers a comprehensive survey of results obtained for solitons and complex
nonlinear wave patterns supported by nonlinear lattices (NLs), which represent a spatially …

This paper reviews the recent theoretical and experimental advances in the study of ultra-
cold gases made of bosonic particles interacting via the long-range, anisotropic dipole …

Liquid crystals are widely known for their technological uses in displays, electro-optics,
photonics and nonlinear optics, but these applications typically rely on defining and …

Dynamic steering of laser beams by ultrathin optical metasurfaces is a significant research
advance for possible applications in remote ranging and sensing. A unique platform for such …

Recent experimental progress in trap** and cooling of molecular gases boosts interest in
the interdisciplinary field of quantum gases with dominant dipole–dipole interactions. An …

We present an experimental study on wave propagation in highly nonlocal optically
nonlinear media, for which far-away boundary conditions significantly affect the evolution of …

Softphotonics has emerged as a new discipline that utilizes soft matter (ie, liquids, gels, bio‐
materials) as waveguide materials with versatile functionalities. The flexible properties of soft …

Liquid crystals are nowadays widely used in all types of display applications. However their
unique electro-optic properties also make them a suitable material for nondisplay …

We review the recent developments of spatial optical solitons in nematic liquid crystals, also
known as Nematicons. We outline their properties, linked to a reorientational nonlinearity in …

Solitons are self-localized wave packets arising from a robust balance between dispersion
and nonlinearity. They are a universal phenomenon, exhibiting properties typically …