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 …

Spatiotemporal mode-locking and dissipative solitons in multimode fiber lasers

B Cao, C Gao, K Liu, X **ao, C Yang… - Light: Science & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Multimode fiber (MMF) lasers are emerging as a remarkable testbed to study nonlinear
spatiotemporal physics with potential applications spanning from high energy pulse …

Real-time observation of the buildup of soliton molecules

X Liu, X Yao, Y Cui - Physical review letters, 2018‏ - APS
Real-time spectroscopy access to ultrafast fiber lasers opens new opportunities for exploring
complex soliton interaction dynamics. Here, we have reported the first observation, to the …

Real-time spectral interferometry probes the internal dynamics of femtosecond soliton molecules

G Herink, F Kurtz, B Jalali, DR Solli, C Ropers - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
Solitons, particle-like excitations ubiquitous in many fields of physics, have been shown to
exhibit bound states akin to molecules. The formation of such temporal soliton bound states …

Revealing the buildup dynamics of harmonic mode‐locking states in ultrafast lasers

X Liu, M Pang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Harmonic mode‐locking (HML) is an important technique enabling the generation of high‐
repetition‐rate ultrashort pulses. Using an emerging time‐stretch dispersive Fourier …

Breathing dissipative solitons in mode-locked fiber lasers

J Peng, S Boscolo, Z Zhao, H Zeng - Science advances, 2019‏ - science.org
Dissipative solitons are self-localized coherent structures arising from the balance between
energy supply and dissipation. Besides stationary dissipative solitons, there are dynamical …

Time stretch and its applications

A Mahjoubfar, DV Churkin, S Barland, N Broderick… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Observing non-repetitive and statistically rare signals that occur on short timescales requires
fast real-time measurements that exceed the speed, precision and record length of …

Real-time full-field characterization of transient dissipative soliton dynamics in a mode-locked laser

P Ryczkowski, M Närhi, C Billet, JM Merolla, G Genty… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Dissipative solitons are remarkably localized states of a physical system that arise from the
dynamical balance between nonlinearity, dispersion and environmental energy exchange …

Real-time observation of internal motion within ultrafast dissipative optical soliton molecules

K Krupa, K Nithyanandan, U Andral, P Tchofo-Dinda… - Physical review …, 2017‏ - APS
Real-time access to the internal ultrafast dynamics of complex dissipative optical systems
opens new explorations of pulse-pulse interactions and dynamic patterns. We present the …

Revealing the Transition Dynamics from Switching to Mode Locking in a Soliton Laser

X Liu, D Popa, N Akhmediev - Physical review letters, 2019‏ - APS
Q switching (QS) and mode locking (ML) are the two main techniques enabling generation
of ultrashort pulses. Here, we report the first observation of pulse evolution and dynamics in …