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Spatial Optical Solitons Guiding Light for Future Technologies

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2002

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Stegeman, George I
Kivshar, Yuri

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Optical Society of America

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An overview of the basic properties of optical solitons was presented. Solitons exist by virtue of very strong nonlinear coupling between radiation and matter. They are also a manifestation of a wave particle duality on a macroscopic scale, exhibiting both particlelike and wavelike properties. The advantages of the solitons for designing smaller all-optical logical gates were also discussed.

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Keywords: Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Electromagnetic wave diffraction; Light propagation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical systems; Optical waveguides; Photons; Wave equations; Photonic crystals; Solitons

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/71718

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Optics and Photonics News

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