1. Dedication

   • J. S. Aitchison
   • G. I. Stegeman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 499 - 502

2. Optical spatial solitons

   • Mordechai Segev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 503 - 533

3. Spatial solitons in Kerr and Kerr-like media

   • N. N. Akhmediev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 535 - 569

4. Bright and dark spatial solitons in non-Kerr media

   • Yu. S. Kivshar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 571 - 614

5. Ion acoustic soliton experiments in a plasma

   • Karl E. Lonngren

   OriginalPaper Pages: 615 - 630

6. Varieties of solitons and solitary waves

   • J. M. Arnold

   OriginalPaper Pages: 631 - 647

7. One-dimensional spatial solitons in AlGaAs waveguides

   • J. U. Kang
   • J. S. Aitchison
   • N. Akhmediev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 649 - 672

8. Solitary wave emission from a non-linear waveguide with a PTS cladding

   • P. Pax
   • E. M. Wright

   OriginalPaper Pages: 673 - 685

9. Internal reflection of one-dimensional bright spatial solitons

   • E. Alvarado-Méndez
   • G. E. Torres-Cisneros
   • V. Vysloukh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 687 - 696

10. (2+1)-D propagation of spatio-temporal solitary waves including higher-order corrections

    • S. Blair
    • K. Wagner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 697 - 737

11. Parametric solitons

    • P. B. Lundquist
    • D. R. Andersen
    • Y. S. Kivshar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 739 - 750

12. Generation of spatial solitons using non-linear guided modes

    • R. W. Micallef
    • Yu. S. Kivshar
    • R. Binder

    OriginalPaper Pages: 751 - 770

13. Theory of mixed-polarization propagation in anisotropic cubic media

    • D. C. Hutchings
    • J. M. Arnold
    • J. S. Aitchison

    OriginalPaper Pages: 771 - 782

14. Spatial bright–dark soliton steering through waveguide coupling

    • A. D. Boardman
    • K. Xie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 783 - 794

15. Dark spatial solitons in discrete cubic media with self- and cross-phase modulation

    • A. Kobyakov
    • S. Darmanyan
    • E. Schmidt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 795 - 808

16. From topological charge information to sets of solitons in quadratic non-linear media

    • L. Torner
    • J. P. Torres
    • J. M. Soto-Crespo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 809 - 827

17. Self-focusing in photorefractive BaTiO3 crystal under external DC electric field

    • J. A. Andrade-Lucio
    • M. D. Iturbe-Castillo
    • R. Ramos-Garcia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 829 - 834

18. Breathing pulses and beams innon-linear media

    • S. Chávez-Cerda
    • M. A. Meneses-Nava
    • J. J. Sánchez-Mondragón

    OriginalPaper Pages: 835 - 847

19. Interaction of soliton-like light beamsin second-order non-linear materials

    • D.-M. Baboiu
    • G. I. Stegeman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 849 - 859

20. Interactions between one-dimensionalquadratic soliton-like beams

    • R. Schiek
    • Y. Baek
    • W. Sohler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 861 - 879

21. Double hump solitary waves in quadratic media with walk-off – domain of existence, stability and decay scenarios

    • C. Etrich
    • U. Peschel
    • D. Mazilu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 881 - 890

22. Vector solitary optical beam control with mixed type I–type II second-harmonic generation

    • A. D. Boardman
    • P. Bontemps
    • K. Xie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 891 - 905

23. Robust generation, properties and potential applications of quadratic spatial solitons generated by optical parametric amplification

    • R. A. Fuerst
    • M. T. G. Canva
    • G. Assanto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 907 - 921

24. Interactions of Type II vectorial spatial solitary waves in materials with quadratic non-linearity

    • A. Barthelemy
    • B. Bourliaguet
    • G. Assanto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 923 - 935

25. Beam breakup and modulational instability in a bulk type I quadratic medium

    • D.-M. Baboiu
    • G. I. Stegeman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 937 - 954