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 …

We review the different dynamical mechanisms leading to the emergence of coherent
structures in physical systems described by the integrable one-dimensional nonlinear …

The propagation of ultrashort pulses in optical fibre plays a central role in the development
of light sources and photonic technologies, with applications from fundamental studies of …

The nonlinear Schrödinger equation is the standard model in nonlinear optics. The pulse
propagation in an isotropic medium can be described by this equation. This paper reports …

Formation of coherent structures and patterns from unstable uniform state or noise is a
fundamental physical phenomenon that occurs in various areas of science ranging from …

Temporal imaging systems are outstanding tools for single-shot observation of optical
signals that have irregular and ultrafast dynamics. They allow long time windows to be …

A statistical theory of rogue waves is proposed and tested against experimental data
collected in a long water tank where random waves with different degrees of nonlinearity are …

Understanding dynamical complexity is one of the most important challenges in science.
Significant progress has recently been made in optics through the study of dissipative soliton …

Fiber lasers are a paradigm of dissipative systems, which distinguish themselves from a
Hamilton system where energy is conservative. Consequently, pulses generated in a fiber …

We investigate the fundamental phenomenon of the spontaneous, noise-induced
modulational instability (MI) of a plane wave. The statistical properties of the noise-induced …