Dark optical solitons: physics and applications

Transmission of stationary nonlinear optical pulses in dispersive dielectric fibers. I. Anomalous dispersion

Akira Hasegawa, F. D. Tappert · Applied Physics Letters · 1973 · 2.9K citations

Optical Materials, Engineering, I. Anomalous Dispersion +18

Experimental Observation of Picosecond Pulse Narrowing and Solitons in Optical Fibers

L. F. Mollenauer, R. H. Stolen, J. P. Gordon · Physical Review Letters · 1980 · 2.2K citations

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Self-Trapping of Optical Beams

R. Y. Chiao, E. Garmire, C. H. Townes · Physical Review Letters · 1964 · 2.1K citations

Photonics, Optical Materials, Engineering +11

Dynamics of solitons in nearly integrable systems

Yuri S. Kivshar, Boris A. Malomed · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1989 · 1.8K citations

Several Solitons, Perturbation Theory, Physics +7

Generation of optical phase singularities by computer-generated holograms

N. R. Heckenberg, R. McDuff, C. P. Smith et al. · Optics Letters · 1992 · 1.4K citations

Photonics, Holography, Optical Materials +15