Localized States in Physics: Solitons and Patterns

Solitons, Self-confined Light and Optical Turbulence . Ligt Self-trapping in Nematic Liquid Crystals.- Photonic Plasma Instabilities and Soliton Turbulence in Spatially Incoherent Light.- Gap-Acoustic Solitons: Slowing and Stopping of Light.- Optical Wave Turbulence and Wave Condensation in a Nonlinear Optical Experiment.- Localized Structures in Pattern Forming Systems. Localized Structures in the Liquid Crystal Light Valve Experiment.- Convectons.- Morphological Characterization of Localized Hexagonal Pattern.- Localized Structures for Optical Applications. Cavity Solitons in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers and their Applications.- Cavity Soliton Laser Based on Coupled Micro-Resonators.- Cavity Soliton Laser based on a VCSEL with saturable Absorber.- Dynamic Control of Localized Structures in a Nonlinear Feedback Experiment.- Excitability and Localized States. Interaction of Oscillatory and Excitable Localized States in a Nonlinear Optical Cavity.- Lurching Waves in Thalamic Neuronal Networks.- Index.