Tlidi M, Staliunas K, Panajotov K, Vladimirov AG, Clerc MG. Localized structures in dissipative media: from optics to plant ecology.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2014;
372:20140101. [PMID:
25246688 PMCID:
PMC4186218 DOI:
10.1098/rsta.2014.0101]
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Abstract
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 Theme Issue was to gather specialists from various fields of nonlinear science towards a cross-fertilization among active areas of research. This is a cross-disciplinary area of research dominated by nonlinear optics due to potential applications for all-optical control of light, optical storage and information processing. This Theme Issue contains contributions from 18 active groups involved in the LS field and have all made significant contributions in recent years.
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