Waves that appear from nowhere: complex rogue wave structures and their elementary particles

N Akhmediev - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The nonlinear Schrödinger equation has wide range of applications in physics with spatial
scales that vary from microns to kilometres. Consequently, its solutions are also universal …

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 …

Acoustic focusing and imaging via phononic crystal and acoustic metamaterials

F Ma, Z Huang, C Liu, JH Wu - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The effective operation of certain electronic, medical, industrial, and testing equipment relies
on high-quality focusing and imaging capability, which also plays a vital role in the field of …

Time reversal and holography with spacetime transformations

V Bacot, M Labousse, A Eddi, M Fink, E Fort - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Wave control is usually performed by spatially engineering the properties of a medium.
Because time and space play similar roles in wave propagation, manipulating time …

A robust inverse scattering transform for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation

D Bilman, PD Miller - Communications on Pure and Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a modification of the standard inverse scattering transform for the focusing
nonlinear Schrödinger equation (also other equations by natural generalization) formulated …

Progresses in the research of oceanic freak waves: Mechanism, modeling, and forecasting

Y Ma, J Zhang, Q Chen, B Tai, G Dong… - International Journal of …, 2022 - World Scientific
In the 1990s, oceanographers realized that the freak waves posed realistic threats to
offshore and marine engineering. Since then, tremendous efforts from both academia and …

Generation of higher-order rogue waves from multibreathers by double degeneracy in an optical fiber

L Wang, J He, H Xu, J Wang, K Porsezian - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
In this paper, we construct a special kind of breather solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger
(NLS) equation, the so-called breather-positon (b-positon for short), which can be obtained …

The nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the propagation of weakly nonlinear waves in optical fibers and on the water surface

A Chabchoub, B Kibler, C Finot, G Millot, M Onorato… - Annals of Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
The dynamics of waves in weakly nonlinear dispersive media can be described by the
nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE). An important feature of the equation is that it can be …

Rogue waves, rational solitons, and modulational instability in an integrable fifth-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Y Yang, Z Yan, BA Malomed - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We analytically study rogue-wave (RW) solutions and rational solitons of an integrable fifth-
order nonlinear Schrödinger (FONLS) equation with three free parameters. It includes, as …

Tracking breather dynamics in irregular sea state conditions

A Chabchoub - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Breather solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) are known to be
considered as backbone models for extreme events in the ocean as well as in Kerr media …