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 …

Extreme events, such as rogue waves, earthquakes, and stock market crashes, occur
spontaneously in many dynamical systems. Because of their usually adverse …

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 …

We propose a modification of the standard inverse scattering transform for the focusing
nonlinear Schrödinger equation (also other equations by natural generalization) formulated …

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 …

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

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 …