Sistema Bibliotecario de la Universidad de Quintana Roo

Solitons, Self-confined Light and Optical Turbulence. Ligt Self-trapping in Nematic Liquid Crystals -- Photonic Plasma Instabilities and Soliton Turbulence in Spatially Incoherent Light -- Gap-Acoustic Solitons: Slowing and Stopping of Light -- Optical Wave Turbulence and Wave Condensation in a Nonlinear Optical Experiment -- Localized Structures in Pattern Forming Systems. Localized Structures in the Liquid Crystal Light Valve Experiment -- Convectons -- Morphological Characterization of Localized Hexagonal Pattern -- Localized Structures for Optical Applications. Cavity Solitons in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers and their Applications -- Cavity Soliton Laser Based on Coupled Micro-Resonators -- Cavity Soliton Laser based on a VCSEL with saturable Absorber -- Dynamic Control of Localized Structures in a Nonlinear Feedback Experiment -- Excitability and Localized States. Interaction of Oscillatory and Excitable Localized States in a Nonlinear Optical Cavity -- Lurching Waves in Thalamic Neuronal Networks -- Index.

Systems driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium can create dissipative structures through the spontaneous breaking of symmetries. A particularlyfascinating feature of these pattern-forming systems is their tendency toproduce spatially confined states. These localized wave packets can exist as propagating entities through space and/or time. Various examples of suchsystems will be dealt with in this book, including localized states in fluids, chemical reactions on surfaces, neural networks, optical systems, granular systems, population models, and Bose-Einstein condensates.This book should appeal to all physicists, mathematicians and electrical engineers interested in localization in far-from-equilibrium systems. The authors - all recognized experts in their fields -strive to achieve a balance between theoretical and experimental considerations thereby givingan overview offascinating physical principles, their manifestations in diverse systems, and the noveltechnical applications on the horizon.

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