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The concept of solitons makes inroads into industrial applications:
In optical telecommunications, temporal solitons begin to be actually utilized.
These are short pulses of light travelling down an optical fiber.
Successful as this is: the data-carrying capacity of optical fiber,
even though it is enormous, is on the verge of reaching a fundamental limit.
Concepts beyond the individual soliton pulses might be helpful in pushing beyond, or working around, that limit. Several ways of creating soliton compounds will be discussed, among them soliton molecules which already have been experimentally demonstrated, and recently discovered chains of dark solitons. |
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