Spatial optical solitons may provide a powerful means for creating reconfigurable, all-optical
circuits in which light is guided and controlled by light. We present a panoramic overview of …

Spatial solitons—not to be confused with their temporal cousins—may provide a means to
all-optical circuitry. This article l Page 1 Light Guiding Light: By Allan W. Snyder and François …

Optical spatial solitons are self-trapped optical beams that exist by virtue of the balance
between diffraction and nonlinearity. They propagate and interact with one another while …

This article serves as an introduction to the focus issue on optical solitons. After a short
review of the history of solitons and the field of integrable systems, a brief overview of the …

Nonlocal spatial solitons are the optical spatial solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media. In this
invited paper, a review is given about the progress on this subject. The nonlocal spatial …

Soliton-based concepts open the road for newly designed laser sources, new frequency
converters and high-intensity laser-material interactions. Optical solitons as stable spatial …

Abstract (2+ 1)‐dimensional optical spatial solitons have become a major field of research in
nonlinear physics throughout the last decade due to their potential in adaptive optical …

1 2 VE Zakharov and S. Wabnitz 1 LD Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2 Kosygin
Str., 117334 Moscow, Russia 2 Laboratoire de Physique, University of Bourgogne, 9 avenue …

We overview theoretical and experimental results on spatial optical solitons excited in arrays
of nonlinear waveguides. First, we briefly summarize the basic properties of the discrete …

We provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the area of
optical discrete solitons. By nature, discrete solitons represent self-trapped wavepackets in …