Machine learning and applications in ultrafast photonics

G Genty, L Salmela, JM Dudley, D Brunner… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Recent years have seen the rapid growth and development of the field of smart photonics,
where machine-learning algorithms are being matched to optical systems to add new …

Rogue waves and analogies in optics and oceanography

JM Dudley, G Genty, A Mussot, A Chabchoub… - Nature Reviews …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Over a decade ago, an analogy was drawn between the generation of large ocean waves
and the propagation of light fields in optical fibres. This analogy drove numerous …

Revealing the buildup dynamics of harmonic mode‐locking states in ultrafast lasers

X Liu, M Pang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Harmonic mode‐locking (HML) is an important technique enabling the generation of high‐
repetition‐rate ultrashort pulses. Using an emerging time‐stretch dispersive Fourier …

Spatiotemporal mode-locking and dissipative solitons in multimode fiber lasers

B Cao, C Gao, K Liu, X **ao, C Yang… - Light: Science & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Multimode fiber (MMF) lasers are emerging as a remarkable testbed to study nonlinear
spatiotemporal physics with potential applications spanning from high energy pulse …

Breathing dissipative solitons in mode-locked fiber lasers

J Peng, S Boscolo, Z Zhao, H Zeng - Science advances, 2019‏ - science.org
Dissipative solitons are self-localized coherent structures arising from the balance between
energy supply and dissipation. Besides stationary dissipative solitons, there are dynamical …

Real-time full-field characterization of transient dissipative soliton dynamics in a mode-locked laser

P Ryczkowski, M Närhi, C Billet, JM Merolla, G Genty… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Dissipative solitons are remarkably localized states of a physical system that arise from the
dynamical balance between nonlinearity, dispersion and environmental energy exchange …

Optical soliton molecular complexes in a passively mode-locked fibre laser

ZQ Wang, K Nithyanandan, A Coillet… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Ultrashort optical pulses propagating in a dissipative nonlinear system can interact and bind
stably, forming optical soliton molecules. Soliton molecules in ultrafast lasers are under …

Farey tree and devil's staircase of frequency-locked breathers in ultrafast lasers

X Wu, Y Zhang, J Peng, S Boscolo, C Finot… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Nonlinear systems with two competing frequencies show locking or resonances. In lasers,
the two interacting frequencies can be the cavity repetition rate and a frequency externally …

Soliton gas: Theory, numerics, and experiments

P Suret, S Randoux, A Gelash, D Agafontsev, B Doyon… - Physical Review E, 2024‏ - APS
The concept of soliton gas was introduced in 1971 by Zakharov as an infinite collection of
weakly interacting solitons in the framework of Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation. In this …

Recent advances on time-stretch dispersive Fourier transform and its applications

T Godin, L Sader, A Khodadad Kashi… - … in Physics: X, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
The need to measure high repetition rate ultrafast processes cuts across multiple areas of
science. The last decade has seen tremendous advances in the development and …