The generation and stable propagation of ultrashort optical pulses tend to be limited by
accumulation of excessive nonlinear phase shifts. The limitations are particularly …

Ultrafast fiber lasers have gained rapid advances in last decades for their intrinsic merits
such as potential of all-fiber format, excellent beam quality, superior power scalability, and …

Self-similar propagation of ultrashort, parabolic pulses in a laser resonator is observed
theoretically and experimentally. This constitutes a new type of pulse sha** in mode …

Rapid progress in passively mode-locked fibre lasers,,,,, is currently driven by the recent
discovery of new mode-locking mechanisms, namely, the self-similarly evolving pulse …

A broad class of exact self-similar solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE)
with distributed dispersion, nonlinearity, and gain or loss has been found. Appropriate …

Recent developments in nonlinear optics have led to the discovery of a new class of
ultrashort pulse, the 'optical similariton'. Optical similaritons arise when the interaction of …

Spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers are a type of ultrafast lasers for which the
longitudinal and transverse modes of the multimode fiber cavities are locked via nonlinear …

Solitons are wave packets that can propagate without changing shape by balancing
nonlinear effects with the effects of dispersion. In photonics, they have underpinned …

Pulse propagation in high-gain optical fiber amplifiers with normal group-velocity dispersion
has been studied by self-similarity analysis of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with gain …

Parabolic amplifier similaritons are observed inside a normal-dispersion laser. The self-
similar pulse is a local nonlinear attractor in the gain segment of the oscillator. The evolution …