Dissipative Solitons: From Optics to Biology and Medicine

Front Matter....Pages 1-13
Three Sources and Three Component Parts of the Concept of Dissipative Solitons....Pages 1-28
Solitons in Viscous Flows....Pages 1-21
Cavity Solitons in Semiconductor Devices....Pages 1-42
Dissipative Solitons in Laser Systems with Non-Local and Non-Instantaneous Nonlinearity....Pages 1-19
Excitability Mediated by Dissipative Solitons in Nonlinear Optical Cavities....Pages 1-23
Temporal Soliton “Molecules” in Mode-Locked Lasers: Collisions, Pulsations, and Vibrations....Pages 1-37
Compounds of Fiber-Optic Solitons....Pages 1-20
Dissipative Nonlinear Structures in Fiber Optics....Pages 1-26
Three-Wave Dissipative Brillouin Solitons....Pages 1-40
Spatial Dissipative Solitons Under Convective and Absolute Instabilities in Optical Parametric Oscillators....Pages 1-27
Discrete Breathers with Dissipation....Pages 1-32
Anharmonic Oscillations, Dissipative Solitons and Non-Ohmic Supersonic Electric Transport....Pages 1-15
Coherent Optical Pulse Dynamics in Nano-composite Plasmonic Bragg Gratings....Pages 1-24
Collective Focusing and Modulational Instability of Light and Cold Atoms....Pages 1-20
On Vegetation Clustering, Localized Bare Soil Spots and Fairy Circles....Pages 1-22
Propagation of Traveling Pulses in Cortical Networks....Pages 1-28
Wave Phenomena in Neuronal Networks....Pages 1-22
Spiral Waves and Dissipative Solitons in Weakly Excitable Media....Pages 1-21
Back Matter....Pages 1-3