Gain through losses in nonlinear optics

AM Perego, SK Turitsyn, K Staliunas - Light: Science & Applications, 2018 - nature.com
Instabilities of uniform states are ubiquitous processes occurring in a variety of spatially
extended nonlinear systems. These instabilities are at the heart of symmetry breaking …

Construction of different wave structures, stability analysis and modulation instability of the coupled nonlinear Drinfel'd–Sokolov–Wilson model

KU Tariq, AM Wazwaz, R Javed - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the coupled nonlinear (1+ 1)-dimensional Drinfel'd–Sokolov–Wilson (DSW)
equation in dispersive water waves is investigated. The proposed structure is very important …

Heterodyne optical time domain reflectometer combined with active loss compensation: A practical tool for investigating fermi pasta ulam recurrence process and …

C Naveau, G Vanderhaegen, P Szriftgiser… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We report recent results obtained with a novel optical fiber experimental setup based on a
heterodyne optical time-domain reflectometer in the context of FPU recurrence process …

Thermodynamic control of soliton dynamics in liquid-core fibers

M Chemnitz, R Scheibinger, C Gaida, M Gebhardt… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Liquid-core fibers offer local external control over pulse dispersion due to their strong
thermodynamic response, offering a new degree of freedom in accurate soliton steering for …

Dissipative solitons and switching waves in dispersion-modulated Kerr cavities

MH Anderson, A Tikan, A Tusnin, J Riemensberger… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We theoretically and experimentally investigate the formation of dissipative coherent
structures in Kerr nonlinear optical microresonators, whose spectrum encompasses an …

Nonlinear Dynamics of Higher‐Order Quasi‐Phase‐Matched Dispersive Waves Formation in Dispersion‐Oscillating Liquid‐Core Fibers

X Qi, TAK Lühder, R Scheibinger… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Here, the concept of generating higher‐order dispersive waves (DWs) via quasi‐phase‐
matching (QPM) in periodically dispersion‐modulated liquid‐core fibers are demonstrated …

Optical analogue of the dynamical Casimir effect in a dispersion-oscillating fibre

S Vezzoli, A Mussot, N Westerberg, A Kudlinski… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
The dynamical Casimir effect is the generation of pairs of real particles or photons from the
vacuum as a result of a non-adiabatic change of a system parameter or boundary condition …

Geometric parametric instability in periodically modulated graded-index multimode fibers

C Mas Arabi, A Kudlinski, A Mussot, M Conforti - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We present a theoretical and numerical study of light propagation in graded-index (GRIN)
multimode fibers where the core diameter has been periodically modulated along the …

Axi-Stack: a method for manufacturing freeform air-silica optical fibre

CA Ross, K Harrington, R Mears, JM Stone, TA Birks… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present a method with potential for fabricating freeform air-silica optical fibre preforms
which is free from the stacking constraints associated with conventional stack-and-draw. The …

Real-time characterization of period-doubling dynamics in uniform and dispersion oscillating fiber ring cavities

F Bessin, F Copie, M Conforti, A Kudlinski, A Mussot… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Modulational instability in passive optical resonators, the triggering mechanism of frequency
comb and pulse train generation, is shown to exhibit transitions between regimes involving …