The physics of dipolar bosonic quantum gases

T Lahaye, C Menotti, L Santos… - Reports on Progress …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews the recent theoretical and experimental advances in the study of ultra-
cold gases made of bosonic particles interacting via the long-range, anisotropic dipole …

Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

Z Chen, M Segev… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

[图书][B] Optical solitons: from fibers to photonic crystals

YS Kivshar, GP Agrawal - 2003 - books.google.com
The current research into solitons and their use in fiber optic communications is very
important to the future of communications. Since the advent of computer networking and …

Optical spatial solitons and their interactions: Universality and diversity

GI Stegeman, M Segev - Science, 1999 - science.org
Spatial solitons, beams that do not spread owing to diffraction when they propagate, have
been demonstrated to exist by virtue of a variety of nonlinear self-trapping mechanisms …

Theoretical progress in many-body physics with ultracold dipolar gases

MA Baranov - Physics Reports, 2008 - Elsevier
Recent experimental progress in trapping and cooling of molecular gases boosts interest in
the interdisciplinary field of quantum gases with dominant dipole–dipole interactions. An …

Optical vortices and vortex solitons

AS Desyatnikov, YS Kivshar, L Torner - Progress in optics, 2005 - Elsevier
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 …

Optical solitons due to quadratic nonlinearities: from basic physics to futuristic applications

AV Buryak, P Di Trapani, DV Skryabin, S Trillo - Physics Reports, 2002 - Elsevier
We present an overview of nonlinear phenomena related to optical quadratic solitons—
intrinsically multi-component localized states of light, which can exist in media without …

Nematicons

M Peccianti, G Assanto - Physics Reports, 2012 - Elsevier
We review the recent developments of spatial optical solitons in nematic liquid crystals, also
known as Nematicons. We outline their properties, linked to a reorientational nonlinearity in …

Advances in intense femtosecond laser filamentation in air

SL Chin, TJ Wang, C Marceau, J Wu, JS Liu… - Laser Physics, 2012 - Springer
This is a review of some recent development in femtosecond filamentation science with
emphasis on our collective work. Previously reviewed work in the field will not be discussed …

Ultraweak long-range interactions of solitons observed over astronomical distances

JK Jang, M Erkintalo, SG Murdoch, S Coen - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
We report what we believe is the weakest interaction between solitons ever observed. Our
experiment involves temporal optical cavity solitons recirculating in a coherently driven …