Discrete dissipative solitons

Demetrios Christodoulides

University of Central Florida, College of Optics and Photonics/CREOL, Orlando, USA

We consider discrete solitons in dissipative lattices such as those encountered in Ginzburg-Landau systems. As a result of discreteness, we find that these systems can exhibit a host of features that are otherwise absent in either the continuous limit or in other conservative dicrete models.

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