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Solitons of the Complex Ginzburg—Landau Equation

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This chapter deals with the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation as a model for describing localised solutions in various optical systems with gain and loss. Qualitative differences of solitons in dissipative systems from those in Hamiltonian ones are revealed. Various examples of solitons and their bound states are considered.

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Akhmediev, N., Ankiewicz, A. (2001). Solitons of the Complex Ginzburg—Landau Equation. In: Trillo, S., Torruellas, W. (eds) Spatial Solitons. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 82. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44582-1_12

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