Controlling light by light with an optical event horizon

A Demircan, S Amiranashvili, G Steinmeyer - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
A novel concept for an all-optical transistor is proposed and verified numerically. This
concept relies on cross-phase modulation between a signal and a control pulse. Other than …

Soliton molecules with two frequencies

O Melchert, S Willms, S Bose, A Yulin, B Roth… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We demonstrate a peculiar mechanism for the formation of bound states of light pulses of
substantially different optical frequencies, in which pulses are strongly bound across a vast …

Heteronuclear soliton molecules with two frequencies

S Willms, O Melchert, S Bose, A Yulin, I Oreshnikov… - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Bound states of optical solitons represent ideal candidates to investigate fundamental
nonlinear wave interaction principles and have been shown to exhibit intriguing analogies to …

[HTML][HTML] Rogue events in the group velocity horizon

A Demircan, S Amiranashvili, C Brée, C Mahnke… - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
The concept of rogue waves arises from a mysterious and potentially calamitous
phenomenon of oceanic surfaces. There is mounting evidence that they are actually …

Compressible octave spanning supercontinuum generation by two-pulse collisions

A Demircan, S Amiranashvili, C Brée, G Steinmeyer - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
We demonstrate a novel method for supercontinuum generation in an optical fiber based on
two-color pum** with a delay and a group velocity matching. The scheme relies on the …

py-fmas: A python package for ultrashort optical pulse propagation in terms of forward models for the analytic signal

O Melchert, A Demircan - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a flexible, open-source Python package for the accurate simulation of the z-
propagation dynamics of ultrashort optical pulses in nonlinear waveguides, especially valid …

Optical fibers with a frequency-dependent Kerr nonlinearity: Theory and applications

AC Sparapani, SM Hernandez, PI Fierens, DF Grosz… - Wave Motion, 2024 - Elsevier
This review provides a detailed discussion of both the mathematical treatment and the
impact of a frequency-dependent Kerr nonlinearity on the propagation of short pulses in …

All-optical supercontinuum switching

O Melchert, C Brée, A Tajalli, A Pape… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Efficient all-optical switching is a challenging task as photons are bosons and cannot
immediately interact with each other. Consequently, one has to resort to nonlinear optical …

Modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation for frequency-dependent nonlinear profiles of arbitrary sign

J Bonetti, N Linale, AD Sánchez, SM Hernandez… - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In recent times, materials exhibiting frequency-dependent optical nonlinearities, such as
nanoparticle-doped glasses and other metamaterials, have gathered significant interest. The …

Crossover from two-frequency pulse compounds to esca** solitons

O Melchert, S Willms, U Morgner, I Babushkin… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The nonlinear interaction of copropagating optical solitons enables a large variety of
intriguing bound-states of light. We here investigate the interaction dynamics of two initially …