Tlidi M, Staliunas K, Panajotov K, Vladimirov A G, Clerc M G
Départment de Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), CP 231, Campus Plaine, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium
Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Colom 11, Terrassa 08222 (Barcelona), Spain.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2014 Oct 28;372(2027). doi: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0101.
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.
耗散介质中的局域结构(LSs)出现在自然科学的各个领域,如生物学、化学、植物生态学、光学和激光物理学。本期专题的提议是召集来自非线性科学各个领域的专家,促进活跃研究领域之间的交叉融合。这是一个以非线性光学为主导的跨学科研究领域,因为它在光的全光控制、光存储和信息处理方面具有潜在应用。本期专题包含了18个活跃在LS领域的研究小组的投稿,这些小组近年来都做出了重大贡献。