Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics

JM Dudley, F Dias, M Erkintalo, G Genty - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
Optical rogue waves are rare, extreme fluctuations in the value of an optical field. The
term'optical rogue wave'was first used in the context of an analogy between pulse …

Recent progress in investigating optical rogue waves

N Akhmediev, JM Dudley, DR Solli… - Journal of optics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The science of rogue waves in optics is now over five years old, and it has emerged as an
area of broad interest to researchers across the physical sciences [1]. This area of study was …

Roadmap on optical rogue waves and extreme events

N Akhmediev, B Kibler, F Baronio, M Belić… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The pioneering paper'Optical rogue waves' by Solli et al (2007 Nature 450 1054) started the
new subfield in optics. This work launched a great deal of activity on this novel subject. As a …

Advances in mid-infrared spectroscopy enabled by supercontinuum laser sources

I Zorin, P Gattinger, A Ebner, M Brandstetter - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Supercontinuum sources are all-fiber pulsed laser-driven systems that provide high power
spectral densities within ultra-broadband spectral ranges. The tailored process of generating …

Optical diametric drive acceleration through action–reaction symmetry breaking

M Wimmer, A Regensburger, C Bersch, MA Miri… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
Newton's third law of motion is one of the pillars of classical physics. This fundamental
principle states that the forces two bodies exert on each other are equal and opposite. Had …

Inversion and tight focusing of Airy pulses under the action of third-order dispersion

R Driben, Y Hu, Z Chen, BA Malomed, R Morandotti - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
By means of direct simulations and theoretical analysis, we study the nonlinear propagation
of truncated Airy pulses in an optical fiber exhibiting both anomalous second-order and …

Dark-and bright-rogue-wave solutions for media with long-wave–short-wave resonance

S Chen, P Grelu, JM Soto-Crespo - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
Exact explicit rogue-wave solutions of intricate structures are presented for the long-wave–
short-wave resonance equation. These vector parametric solutions feature coupled dark …

Instabilities, solitons and rogue waves in 𝒫𝒯-coupled nonlinear waveguides

YV Bludov, R Driben, VV Konotop… - Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We considered the modulational instability of continuous-wave backgrounds, and the
related generation and evolution of deterministic rogue waves in the recently introduced …

Dark three-sister rogue waves in normally dispersive optical fibers with random birefringence

S Chen, JM Soto-Crespo, P Grelu - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We investigate dark rogue wave dynamics in normally dispersive birefringent optical fibers,
based on the exact rational solutions of the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations …

All-optical supercontinuum switching

O Melchert, C Brée, A Tajalli, A Pape… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Efficient all-optical switching is a challenging task as photons are bosons and cannot
immediately interact with each other. Consequently, one has to resort to nonlinear optical …