Odyssey of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers

8 Hot solitons, cold solitons, and hybrid solitons in fiber optic waveguides

P. Tchofo Dinda, E. Tchomgo Felenou and C. M. Ngabireng

8.1 Introduction

After its appearance in the literature in the 1960s, the concept of the soli-ton has quickly spread in most of the branches of physics and then extended beyond this discipline to reach areas as diverse as fluids, plasmas, condensed matter, biology and geology, thus becoming one of the most multidisciplinary concepts of the modern sciences [1]. The experimental demonstration of the reality of this concept stimulated the emergence of a stream of scientific topics having fundamental or applied interests. The soliton is a physical object that results from an energy localization effect having a relatively ...