| Preface | |
| Poem | |
| Contributing Authors | |
| Nonlinear Waves in Random Media | |
| Exponential Localization Versus Soliton Propagation | p. 3 |
| Pulse Confinement in Optical Fibers with Random Dispersion | p. 19 |
| Propagation of an Optical Pulse in a Fiber with Random Dispersion - management | p. 29 |
| Spatial Solitons in Random Quadratic Media | p. 37 |
| Correlation of the Amplitude and Phase Random Modulations in Nonlinear Medium | p. 55 |
| Spatio-temporal Chaos in Time Evolution of BEC with Attractive Two-body Interactions | p. 61 |
| Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in Optical Trap | p. 69 |
| Nonlinear Waves in Discrete, Including Disordered, Systems | |
| Aspects of Discrete Breathers and New Directions | p. 81 |
| Complexity at Mesoscale | p. 99 |
| Resonant Mode Interactions in Nonlinear Lattices | p. 115 |
| Discrete Solitons in Nonlinear Waveguide Arrays | p. 131 |
| Quantization of Intrinsic Nonlinear Localized Modes in Solids | p. 159 |
| Experiments with Discrete Breathers in Josephson Arrays | p. 173 |
| Breather Compactification in Nonlinear Anharmonic Lattices with Nonlocal Dispersive Interactions | p. 189 |
| Growth and Decay of Weakly Perturbed Discrete Breathers | p. 197 |
| Standing Waves in 1D Nonlinear Lattices | p. 205 |
| Wannier-Stark Solitons in Waveguide Arrays with Linear Potential | p. 213 |
| Optical Solitons in Inhomogeneous Media | |
| The Stimulated Raman Scattering System: a Numerical Study | p. 223 |
| Chaotic Dynamics of Topological Defects in Parametrically Excited Waves | p. 239 |
| Wavebreaking in Hydrodynamics of the Defocusing NLS Equation | p. 255 |
| Propagation and Interaction of Extremely Short Electromagnetic Pulses in Non-Linear Media | p. 263 |
| Nonlinear Impurity Modes in Homogeneous and Periodic Media | p. 279 |
| Effects of Linear and Nonlinear Photo-elasticity in Super-lattices Near Interband Resonances | p. 291 |
| Resonant Optics of Impurities in Photonic Crystals | p. 297 |
| Bragg-grating Solitons in Dual-core Semi-linear Systems | p. 307 |
| Transverse Patterns in Type-II Optical Parametric Oscillators | p. 315 |
| Self-trapping and Localized Modes in 2-D Photonic Crystals | p. 323 |
| Soliton Self-shaping Through Transverse Electrostrictive Modulation in a Brillouin Fiber Ring Laser | p. 331 |
| Quantum Dynamics in Kerr Nonlinear Coupler via Phase-space Representation | p. 341 |
| Exact Cluster Expansions for a One-dimensional [sigma]-function Bose Gas | p. 351 |
| Nonlinear Optical Waves and Nonlinear Waves in General | |
| Nonlinear Optical Shocks and Missiles. Theory, Applications and Numerical Methods | p. 365 |
| Nonlinear Analysis of Heart Rate Variability | p. 387 |
| Phenomenon of "Quantized" Oscillation Excitation | p. 397 |
| The Doppler Effect and Form of the Profile of Radiation Spectral Lines | p. 411 |
| Dissipative soliton dynamics in strongly driven ferromagnets | p. 415 |
| Nonlinear Eigenmodes in Quadratic Film Waveguides | p. 423 |
| Accelerating Solitons and Photorefractivity | p. 435 |
| Index | p. 443 |
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