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 …

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 …

Microwave photonic radars

S Pan, Y Zhang - Journal of Lightwave technology, 2020 - opg.optica.org
As the only method for all-weather, all-time and long-distance target detection and
recognition, radar has been intensively studied since it was invented, and is considered as …

Deep learning in label-free cell classification

CL Chen, A Mahjoubfar, LC Tai, IK Blaby, A Huang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Label-free cell analysis is essential to personalized genomics, cancer diagnostics, and drug
development as it avoids adverse effects of staining reagents on cellular viability and cell …

Synchronized multi-wavelength soliton fiber laser via intracavity group delay modulation

D Mao, H Wang, H Zhang, C Zeng, Y Du, Z He… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Locking of longitudinal modes in laser cavities is the common path to generate ultrashort
pulses. In traditional multi-wavelength mode-locked lasers, the group velocities rely on …

Measurement technologies for precision positioning

W Gao, SW Kim, H Bosse, H Haitjema, YL Chen, XD Lu… - CIRP annals, 2015 - Elsevier
Precision positioning of an object relative to a reference point is a common task in many
activities of production engineering. Sensor technologies for single axis measurement …

Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy

K Hashimoto, T Nakamura, T Kageyama… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
High-speed measurement confronts the extreme speed limit when the signal becomes
comparable to the noise level. In the context of broadband mid-infrared spectroscopy, state …

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 …