Optical Solitons : From Fibers to Photonic Crystals

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Summary: Right Book for Nonlinear Optics
Review: I am working in the Quantum Optics Research Lab at San Francisco State University. And I meet with many difficulties to find book or any material in Internet which could explain basic ideas about different optical solitons in photonic crystals. This book is great, a specially for someone who have no idea what is a spatial, dark, or vortex soliton. This book has many chapters in which authors discuss step by step not only teory of formation of all kinds of solitons, but also give experimental results. I enjoy to read this book, when I have some questions about solitons, and I recomend it for anyone who wants to understand what is an optical soliton.

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Summary: Solitons?!
Review: The book provides both an introduction to the basic principles and a comprehensive analysis of the current state-of-the-art in the rapidly developing field of optical solitons, including temporal, spatial, and spatiotemporal solitons. This is a very well-written, pedagogical book that goes through many aspects of the soliton theory and experiment that are not covered in other books. There is a good balance between qualitative
and mathematical analysis in the book, as well as between the theory and experiment. To facilitate understanding of the material, the authors provide readers with many illustrative examples. The reader will find one of the most extensive list of bibliography at the end of each chapter. The index is complete and useful. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the soliton theory and its applications.