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Davydov's soliton revisited : self-trapping of vibrational energy in protein : proceedings of a NATO advanced research workshop on self-trapping of vibrational energy in protein, held July 30-August 5, 1989, in Thisted /edited by Peter L. Christiansen and Alwyn C. Scott
ISBN: 0306437341 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York London Plenum

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Nonlinear coherent structures in physics and biology : proceedings of a Nato Advanced Research Workshop ... held in Bayreuth, Germany, 1-4 June 1993
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ISBN: 0306448033 1489913459 1489913432 9780306448034 Year: 1994 Volume: 329

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Applications of analytic and geometric methods to nonlinear differential equations : proceedings of a Nato Advanced Research Workshop ... held in Exeter, U.K., 14-19 July 1992


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Asymptotic analysis of soliton problems: an inverse scattering approach
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ISBN: 3540172033 0387172033 3540473874 9783540172031 Year: 1986 Volume: 1232 Publisher: Berlin

Nonlinear phenomena at phase transitions and instabilities
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ISBN: 0306408961 1468441299 1468441272 Year: 1982 Volume: vol 77 Publisher: New York

Soliton-driven photonics : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute ..., Swinoujscie, Poland, 24 September-4 October 2000
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ISBN: 9401006822 0792371313 0792371305 Year: 2001 Volume: v. 31 Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston ; London Brussels Kluwer Academic Publishers NATO Scientific Affairs Division

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It is ironic that the ideas ofNewton, which described a beam of light as a stream ofparticles made it difficult for him to explain things like thin film interference. Yet these particles, called 'photons', have caused the adjective 'photonic' to gain common usage, when referring to optical phenomena. The purist might argue that only when we are confronted by the particle nature of light should we use the word photonics. Equally, the argument goes on, only when we are face-to­ face with an integrable system, i. e. one that possesses an infinite number of conserved quantities, should we say soliton rather than solitary wave. Scientists and engineers are pragmatic, however, and they are happy to use the word 'soliton' to describe what appears to be an excitation that is humped, multi­ humped, or localised long enough for some use to be made of it. The fact that such 'solitons' may stick to each other (fuse) upon collision is often something to celebrate for an application, rather than just evidence that, after all, these are not really solitons, in the classic sense. 'Soliton', therefore, is a widely used term with the qualification that we are constantly looking out for deviant behaviour that draws our attention to its solitary wave character. In the same spirit, 'photonics' is a useful generic cover-all noun, even when 'electromagnetic theory' or 'optics' would suffice.

Beam shaping and control with nonlinear optics
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ISBN: 1280206500 9786610206506 0306470799 0306459027 Year: 1998 Volume: 369 Publisher: New York Plenum

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The field of nonlinear optics, which has undergone a very rapid development since the discovery of lasers in the early sixties, continues to be an active and rapidly developing - search area. The interest is mainly due to the potential applications of nonlinear optics: - rectly in telecommunications for high rate data transmission, image processing and recognition or indirectly from the possibility of obtaining large wavelength range tuneable lasers for applications in industry, medicine, biology, data storage and retrieval, etc. New phenomena and materials continue to appear regularly, renewing the field. This has proven to be especially true over the last five years. New materials such as organics have been developed with very large second- and third-order nonlinear optical responses. Imp- tant developments in the areas of photorefractivity, all optical phenomena, frequency conv- sion and electro-optics have been observed. In parallel, a number of new phenomena have been reported, some of them challenging the previously held concepts. For example, solitons based on second-order nonlinearities have been observed in photorefractive materials and frequency doubling crystals, destroying the perception that third order nonlinearities are - quired for their generation and propagation. New ways of creating and manipulating nonl- ear optical materials have been developed. An example is the creation of highly nonlinear (second-order active) polymers by static electric field, photo-assisted or all-optical poling. Nonlinear optics involves, by definition, the product of electromagnetic fields. As a con- quence, it leads to the beam control.

Nonlinear waves : classical and quantum aspects
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ISBN: 1402021887 9786610148134 1280148136 1402021909 Year: 2004 Volume: 153 Publisher: Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers,

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Leading scientists discuss the most recent physical and experimental results in the physics of Bose-Einstein condensate theory, the theory of nonlinear lattices (including quantum and nonlinear lattices), and nonlinear optics and photonics. Classical and quantum aspects of the dynamics of nonlinear waves are considered. The contributions focus on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and on the quantum nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Recent experimental results on atomic condensates and hydrogen bonded systems are reviewed. Particular attention is given to nonlinear matter waves in periodic potential.

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