Abstract
Solitons are a fairly general non-linear phenomena, appearing in-very many nonlinear wave systems in nature. Very often, the solitons of a given system are all self-similar to each other. In other words, there is a simple scaling relation for their size and intensity that maps all the solitons onto each other. This happens when the underlying equation describing the system does not have any natural length scale appearing in it, a good example is the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE):
© 1999 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Marin Soljačić, Suzanne Sears, Mordechai Segev, Dmitriy Krylov, and Keren Bergman
WE4 Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NP) 1999
Marin Soljačić, Suzanne Sears, and Mordechai Segev
QWF1 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 1999
Marin Soljačić, Suzanne Sears, and Mordechai Segev
WD7 Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NP) 1999