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 …

Frequency combs are optical spectra composed of a set of discrete equally spaced lines.
Such spectra can be generated by diverse sources such as mode-locked lasers, resonators …

Abstract Complex Ginzburg–Landau (CGL) equations serve as canonical models in a great
variety of physical settings, such as nonlinear photonics, dynamical phase transitions …

This review is dedicated to recent progress in the active field of rogue waves, with an
emphasis on the analytical prediction of versatile rogue wave structures in scalar, vector …

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 …

Optical fibres are favourable tabletop laboratories to investigate both coherent and
incoherent nonlinear waves. In particular, exact solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear …

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 the phenomenon of rogue wave formation, often called extreme waves, in
diverse branches of nonlinear science has become one of the most attractive domains …

We present both a theoretical description and experimental observation of the nonlinear
mutual interactions between a pair of copropagative breathers in the framework of the …

In optical fibres, weak modulations can grow at the expense of a strong pump to form a
triangular comb of sideband pairs, until the process is reversed. Repeated cycles of such …