Recent advances and applications of random lasers and random fiber lasers

ASL Gomes, AL Moura, CB de Araújo… - Progress in Quantum …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Random Lasers (RLs) and Random Fiber Lasers (RFLs) have been the subject of
intense research since their first experimental demonstration in 1994 and 2007, respectively …

The bright prospects of optical solitons after 50 years

A Blanco-Redondo, CM de Sterke, C Xu, S Wabnitz… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The idea of temporal solitons in optical fibres as a means to compensate for the chromatic
dispersion-induced temporal broadening of pulses via the intensity-dependent refractive …

Spatiotemporal mode-locking in multimode fiber lasers

LG Wright, DN Christodoulides, FW Wise - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
A laser is based on the electromagnetic modes of its resonator, which provides the feedback
required for oscillation. Enormous progress has been made toward controlling the …

Coherence-controlled chaotic soliton bunch

ZX Zhang, M Luo, JH Liu, YT Yang, TJ Li, M Liu… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Controlling the coherence of chaotic soliton bunch holds the promise to explore novel light-
matter interactions and manipulate dynamic events such as rogue waves. However, the …

Nanotube and graphene saturable absorbers for fibre lasers

A Martinez, Z Sun - Nature Photonics, 2013‏ - nature.com
Nanotubes and graphene have emerged as promising materials for use in ultrafast fibre
lasers. Their unique electrical and optical properties enable them to be used as saturable …

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 …

Recent advances in fundamentals and applications of random fiber lasers

DV Churkin, S Sugavanam, ID Vatnik… - Advances in Optics …, 2015‏ - opg.optica.org
Random fiber lasers blend together attractive features of traditional random lasers, such as
low cost and simplicity of fabrication, with high-performance characteristics of conventional …

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 …

Soliton gas in integrable dispersive hydrodynamics

A El Gennady - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We review the spectral theory of soliton gases in integrable dispersive hydrodynamic
systems. We first present a phenomenological approach based on the consideration of …

Single-shot observation of optical rogue waves in integrable turbulence using time microscopy

P Suret, RE Koussaifi, A Tikan, C Evain… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Optical fibres are favourable tabletop laboratories to investigate both coherent and
incoherent nonlinear waves. In particular, exact solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear …