Preface Introduction 1. Electric properties of the dielectric fiber 2. Derivation of wave packet equation and introduction to soliton transmission systems 3. Inverse scattering transform and N-Soliton solutions 4. Perturbation methods 5. Effects on higher order terms 6. Reshaping of solitons and concept of guiding center (Average) solitons 7. Soliton transmission control 8. Interaction among solitons in same channel 9. Interaction among solitons in different channels 10. Femto second solitons 11. Soliton transmission experiments 12. Other applications of optical solitons 13. Spatial solitons, stability and chaos 14. Modulational instability 15. Dark solitons General references