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Solitons light the way

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  • Allan Boardman

    (Joule Laboratory, University of Salford)

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Solitons are solitary waves and were first observed over 150 years ago. Now it seems they may, in technological terms, be the wave of the future. The latest work involves self-trapping of incoherent (that is, ‘ordinary’) light in photorefractive materials, which results in beams that can be tuned to form ‘soft’ waveguides; moreover, the physics is such that beams can be sent within beams. Some technical hurdles have yet to be overcome, but the future of optical soliton communication or all-optical information processing looks bright.

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  • Allan Boardman, 1997. "Solitons light the way," Nature, Nature, vol. 387(6636), pages 854-855, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:387:y:1997:i:6636:d:10.1038_43067
    DOI: 10.1038/43067
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    1. Li, Yan & Hao, Xiazhi & Yao, Ruoxia & Xia, Yarong & Shen, Yali, 2023. "Nonlinear superposition among lump soliton, stripe solitons and other nonlinear localized waves of the (2+1)-dimensional cpKP-BKP equation," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), Elsevier, vol. 208(C), pages 57-70.

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