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 …

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 …

Temporal periodic modulation of the interatomic s-wave scattering length in Bose-Einstein
condensates is shown to excite subharmonic patterns in the atom density through a …

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 consider a semiconductor microcavity driven by a coherent and stationary holding beam,
in two distinct configurations. In the first, no carriers are injected in the multiple-quantum-well …

Localized structures (LSs) in dissipative media appear in various fields of natural science
such as biology, chemistry, plant ecology, optics and laser physics. The proposal for this …

We review recent advances on temporal localized structures in optical resonators. Because
they can be individually addressed, localized structures may be used as elementary …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the concept of optical pattern formation. The
field of optical pattern formation (OPF) studies the spatial and spatiotemporal phenomena …

We show spatial localized structures in degenerate optical parametric oscillators associated
with bistability between two homogeneous solutions of the same amplitude and the opposite …

In 1961, shortly after reliable laser sources were available, the experimental observation of
frequency doubling [second harmonic generation (SHG)] of red light was reported by …