Summary: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 19, No. 8 (2009) 2621­2636
c World Scientific Publishing Company
DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS: PRESENT
UNDERSTANDING, APPLICATIONS AND
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
NAIL AKHMEDIEV and ADRIAN ANKIEWICZ
Optical Sciences Group,
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering,
The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
JOS´E-MAR´IA SOTO-CRESPO
Instituto de ´Optica, C.S.I.C.,
Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
PHILIPPE GRELU
Institut Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 5209 CNRS,
Facult´e des Sciences Mirande,
Avenue Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France
Received April 9, 2008; Revised October 2, 2008
Dissipative solitons form a new paradigm for the investigation of phenomena involving stable
structures in nonlinear systems far from equilibrium. Basic principles can be applied to a wide
range of phenomena in science. Recent results involving solitons and soliton complexes of the

Source: Akhmediev, Nail - Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University
Australian National University, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Optical Sciences Group

Collections: Engineering; Physics