Solitons Simplified

Allan W. Snyder, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia.

Optical solitons have potential importance for long distance telecommunications (temporal solitons), as well as for all optical devices (spatial solitons) where light itself guides, steers, or manipulates light in bulk material without any intervening fabricated structures.

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