Thursday, 13 September, 2001,  11:00 am 

Le Couteur Building Seminar Room

Professor Nail Akhmediev
Optical Science Centre

Solitons of the Cubic-Quintic
Ginzburg-Landau Equation:
Variety of Shapes and Stability Properties

ABSTRACT:

Dissipative systems can have a multiplicity of stationary solutions in the form of both stable and unstable solitons. For a given set of the parameters, cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation has many coexisting soliton solutions. Most of the soliton solutions are unstable. However, all types of solitons play an important role in the general dynamics of the system.