Optical Solitons
Subtitle: From Fibers to Photonic Crystals
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: March 5, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780124105904
First sentence: This introductory chapter is intended to provide a general overview of optical solitons, emphasizing the physical principles and the simplest theoritical model based on the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation and its generalizations.