Optical solitons due to quadratic nonlinearities: from basic physics to futuristic applications

Physics Reports - Tập 370 - Trang 63-235 - 2002
Alexander V. Buryak1, Paolo Di Trapani2, Dmitry V. Skryabin3, Stefano Trillo4,5
1School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales at ADFA, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
2Istituto di Fisica della Materia (INFM) and Department of Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
3Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
4Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
5Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM)-RM3, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy