Dissipative solitons for mode-locked lasers

P Grelu, N Akhmediev - Nature photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Dissipative solitons are localized formations of an electromagnetic field that are balanced
through an energy exchange with the environment in presence of nonlinearity, dispersion …

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 …

Rogue waves and their generating mechanisms in different physical contexts

M Onorato, S Residori, U Bortolozzo, A Montina… - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
Rogue waves is the name given by oceanographers to isolated large amplitude waves, that
occur more frequently than expected for normal, Gaussian distributed, statistical events …

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 …

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 …

Dissipative rogue waves generated by chaotic pulse bunching in a mode-locked laser

C Lecaplain, P Grelu, JM Soto-Crespo, N Akhmediev - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
Rare events of extremely high optical intensity are experimentally recorded at the output of a
mode-locked fiber laser that operates in a strongly dissipative regime of chaotic multiple …

Breather-to-soliton transitions, nonlinear wave interactions, and modulational instability in a higher-order generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation

L Wang, JH Zhang, ZQ Wang, C Liu, M Li, FH Qi, R Guo - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
We study the nonlinear waves on constant backgrounds of the higher-order generalized
nonlinear Schrödinger (HGNLS) equation describing the propagation of ultrashort optical …

Recent progress on optical rogue waves in fiber lasers: status, challenges, and perspectives

Y Song, Z Wang, C Wang, K Panajotov… - Advanced …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Rogue waves (RWs) are rare, extreme amplitude, localized wave packets, which have
received much interest recently in different areas of physics. Fiber lasers with their abundant …

Breather and rogue wave solutions of a generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation

LH Wang, K Porsezian, JS He - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and …, 2013 - APS
In this paper, using the Darboux transformation, we demonstrate the generation of first-order
breather and higher-order rogue waves from a generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation …

Rogue waves in nonlinear optics

M Tlidi, M Taki - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Understanding the phenomenon of rogue wave formation, often called extreme waves, in
diverse branches of nonlinear science has become one of the most attractive domains …