Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics

JM Dudley, F Dias, M Erkintalo, G Genty - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
Optical rogue waves are rare, extreme fluctuations in the value of an optical field. The
term'optical rogue wave'was first used in the context of an analogy between pulse …

Optical wave turbulence: Towards a unified nonequilibrium thermodynamic formulation of statistical nonlinear optics

A Picozzi, J Garnier, T Hansson, P Suret, S Randoux… - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
The nonlinear propagation of coherent optical fields has been extensively explored in the
framework of nonlinear optics, while the linear propagation of incoherent fields has been …

Real-time measurements of spontaneous breathers and rogue wave events in optical fibre modulation instability

M Närhi, B Wetzel, C Billet, S Toenger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Modulation instability is a fundamental process of nonlinear science, leading to the unstable
breakup of a constant amplitude solution of a physical system. There has been particular …

The physics of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation in fiber optics: Rogue waves, modulation instability and self-focusing phenomena

F Copie, S Randoux, P Suret - Reviews in Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the different dynamical mechanisms leading to the emergence of coherent
structures in physical systems described by the integrable one-dimensional nonlinear …

Nondegenerate Kuznetsov-Ma solitons of Manakov equations and their physical spectra

WJ Che, SC Chen, C Liu, LC Zhao, N Akhmediev - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We study the dynamics of Kuznetsov-Ma solitons (KMSs) in the framework of vector
nonlinear Schrödinger (Manakov) equations. An exact multiparameter family of solutions for …

Analytical model and experimental verification of the critical power for modulation instability in optical fibers

M Alem, MA Soto, L Thévenaz - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Modulation instability is thoroughly investigated and a simple analytical model for its power
critically modifying the wave properties in terms of system parameters is derived and …

Modulation instability and phase-shifted Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence

O Kimmoun, HC Hsu, H Branger, MS Li, YY Chen… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Instabilities are common phenomena frequently observed in nature, sometimes leading to
unexpected catastrophes and disasters in seemingly normal conditions. One prominent form …

“Extraordinary” modulation instability in optics and hydrodynamics

G Vanderhaegen, C Naveau… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The classical theory of modulation instability (MI) attributed to Bespalov–Talanov in optics
and Benjamin–Feir for water waves is just a linear approximation of nonlinear effects and …

Deep photonic reservoir computing recurrent network

YW Shen, RQ Li, GT Liu, J Yu, X He, L Yi, C Wang - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Deep neural networks usually process information through multiple hidden layers. However,
most hardware reservoir computing recurrent networks only have one hidden reservoir …

Breather solutions of the integrable quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation and their interactions

A Chowdury, DJ Kedziora, A Ankiewicz, N Akhmediev - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
We present breather solutions of the quintic integrable equation of the Schrödinger
hierarchy. This equation has terms describing fifth-order dispersion and matching nonlinear …