Introduction: Localized Structures in Dissipative Media: From Optics to Plant Ecology

TL;DR

This paper introduces a cross-disciplinary overview of localized structures in dissipative media, highlighting recent advances across fields like optics, biology, and ecology, emphasizing nonlinear science's unifying themes.

Contribution

It compiles recent research contributions from 18 groups, fostering cross-fertilization among diverse scientific disciplines studying localized structures.

Findings

Localized structures are prevalent across various scientific fields.

Nonlinear optics dominates the research due to technological applications.

Recent advances have been made in understanding and controlling these structures.

Abstract

Localised structures in dissipative appears in various fields of natural science such as biology, chemistry, plant ecology, optics and laser physics. The proposed theme issue is to gather specialists from various fields of non-linear science toward a cross-fertilisation among active areas of research. This is a cross-disciplinary area of research dominated by the nonlinear optics due to potential applications for all-optical control of light, optical storage, and information processing. This theme issue contains contributions from 18 active groups involved in localized structures field and have all made significant contributions in recent years.