Soliton Optics and Photonics



Lecturer: Prof. Gaetano Assanto
Period: February-June


Contents

Introduction to solitary waves and solitons, spatial solitons, temporal solitons, spatio-temporal solitons One-, two-, and three-dimensional solitons Spatial optical solitons and their stability Kerr solitons in optical fibers, NLSE Optical spatial solitons in liquid crystals, nematicons Nematicon phenomena, features and applications

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