Table of Contents

Optical Soliton Theory and Its Applications in Communication.- Linear and Nonlinear Propagation Effects in Optical Fibers.- Nonlinear Waves in Optical Waveguides and Soliton Theory Applications.- Solitons Around Us: Integrable, Hamiltonian and Dissipative Systems.- System Analysis Using the Split Operator Method.- Multicomponent Higher Order Bright Soliton Solutions and Shape Changing Collisions in Coupled Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations.- Mathematical Modelling in Fiber and Waveguide Grating Structures.- Theory of Gap Solitons in Short Period Gratings.- Impact of Stimulated Raman Scattering in High-Speed Long-Distance Transmission Lines.- Quasi-linear Optical Pulses in Dispersion Managed Fibers: Propagation and Interaction.- Bi-Soliton Propagating in Dispersion-Managed System and Its Application to High Speed and Long Haul Optical Transmission.- Optical Fiber Soliton Lasers.- Nonlinear Phenomena with Ultra-Broadband Optical Radiation in Photonic Crystal Fibers and Hollow Waveguides.- Experimental Study of Modulational Instability and Vector Solitons in Optical Fibers.- Self-structuration of Three-Wave Dissipative Solitons in CW-Pumped Backward Optical Parametric Oscillators.- Spatial Semiconductor-Resonator Solitons.- Propagation and Diffraction of Picosecond Acoustic Wave Packets in the Soliton Regime.