Abstract The study of Bose–Einstein condensation effects in photonic systems has revealed
a rich phenomenology related to spontaneous coherence generation in driven-dissipative …

We review the properties of optical spatial dissipative solitons (SDS). These are stable, self‐
localized optical excitations sitting on a uniform, or quasi‐uniform, background in a …

What is singular optics? This new branch of modern physical optics deals with a wide class
of effects associated with phase singularities in wave fields, as well as with the topology of …

In physics, wave propagation is traditionally analyzed by means of regular solutions of wave
equations. However, solutions of wave equations in two and three dimensions often possess …

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 …

This book addresses a subject at the crossing point of two lines of investi gation-synergetics
and modern nonlinear optics. First, the book is devoted to optical patterns that previously …

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 investigate experimentally pattern formation in a passive semiconductor microresonator,
one of the simplest nonlinear optical feedback systems, and potentially useful for optical …

We review publications on transverse dynamics in cavity nonlinear optics during the years
2000–2003. Topics covered are transverse pattern dynamics, localized structures, scaling of …