Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

Pattern formation and competition occur in a nonlinear extended medium if dissipation
allows for attracting sets, independently of initial and boundary conditions. This intrinsic …

Guiding graduate students and researchers through the complex world of laser physics and
nonlinear optics, this book provides an in-depth exploration of the dynamics of lasers and …

Cavity solitons are localized intensity peaks that can form in a homogeneous background of
radiation. They are generated by shining laser pulses into optical cavities that contain a …

Polar liquid crystalline materials can be used in optical and electronic applications, and
recent interest has turned to formation strategies that exploit the shape of polar molecules …

The growth of regularity from disorder, the evolution from the simple towards the complex,
and the spontaneous formation of spatio temporal patterns in general are questions which …

We consider a semiconductor microcavity driven by a coherent and stationary holding beam,
in two distinct configurations. In the first, no carriers are injected in the multiple-quantum-well …

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 …

LOCALIZED STRUCTURES IN NONLINEAR OPTICAL MEDIA: A SELECTION OF RECENT
STUDIES Page 1 Romanian Reports in Physics, Vol. 67, No. 4, P. 1383–1400, 2015 Dedicated …

The lower branch of the dispersion relation of exciton polaritons in semiconductor
microcavities, operating in the strong-coupling regime, contains sections of both positive and …