Spatial Solitons

to Spatial Solitons.- Materials for Spatial Solitons.- One-Dimensional Spatial Solitons in Kerr Media.- Photorefractive Spatial Solitons.- Incoherent Solitons: Self-Trapping of Weakly Correlated Wavepackets.- Quadratic Solitons.- Bragg Solitons: Theory and Experiments.- Stability of Spatial Optical Solitons.- Nonlinear Wave Collapse.- Discrete Solitons.- Optical Vortex Solitons.- Solitons of the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation.- Existence, Stability, and Properties of Cavity Solitons.- Parametric Solitons in Passive Structures with Feedback.- Spatial Solitons in Resonators.- Nonlinear Magneto-Optic Solitons.- Coupled Propagation of Light and Matter Waves: Solitons and Transverse Instabilities.

From the reviews of the first edition:

"This book is the volume 82 in Springer Series 'Optical Sciences', which includes invited contributions from the majority of world leading experts and pioneers in the field. ... The content of the book covers a wide spectrum of issues concerning the propagation of spatial solitons, ranging from the most challenging theoretical problems to the most exciting experimental achievements to date." (Andrei Mourachkine, Physicalia, Vol. 38 (4), 2002)