The bright prospects of optical solitons after 50 years

A Blanco-Redondo, CM de Sterke, C Xu, S Wabnitz… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The idea of temporal solitons in optical fibres as a means to compensate for the chromatic
dispersion-induced temporal broadening of pulses via the intensity-dependent refractive …

Solitons in nonlinear lattices

YV Kartashov, BA Malomed, L Torner - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011‏ - APS
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 …

[ספר][B] Optical solitons: from fibers to photonic crystals

YS Kivshar, GP Agrawal - 2003‏ - books.google.com
The current research into solitons and their use in fiber optic communications is very
important to the future of communications. Since the advent of computer networking and …

Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

Z Chen, M Segev… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

O Morsch, M Oberthaler - Reviews of modern physics, 2006‏ - APS
Matter waves inside periodic potentials are well known from solid-state physics, where
electrons interacting with a crystal lattice are considered. Atomic Bose-Einstein condensates …

Self‐assembled photonic structures

JF Galisteo‐López, M Ibisate, R Sapienza… - Advanced …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Photonic crystals have proven their potential and are nowadays a familiar concept. They
have been approached from many scientific and technological flanks. Among the many …

Discrete solitons in optics

F Lederer, GI Stegeman, DN Christodoulides… - Physics Reports, 2008‏ - Elsevier
We provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the area of
optical discrete solitons. By nature, discrete solitons represent self-trapped wavepackets in …

Light propagation and localization in modulated photonic lattices and waveguides

IL Garanovich, S Longhi, AA Sukhorukov, YS Kivshar - Physics Reports, 2012‏ - Elsevier
We review both theoretical and experimental advances in the recently emerged field of
modulated photonic lattices. These artificial periodic dielectric structures provide a powerful …

Several new directions for ultrafast fiber lasers

W Fu, LG Wright, P Sidorenko, S Backus, FW Wise - Optics express, 2018‏ - opg.optica.org
Ultrafast fiber lasers have the potential to make applications of ultrashort pulses widespread–
techniques not only for scientists, but also for doctors, manufacturing engineers, and more …

Self-collimating phenomena in photonic crystals

H Kosaka, T Kawashima, A Tomita, M Notomi… - Applied Physics …, 1999‏ - pubs.aip.org
We found that self-determining collimated light is generated in a photonic crystal fabricated
on silicon. The divergence of the collimated beam is insensitive to that of the incident beam …