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 …

Rogue waves (RWs) are rare, extreme amplitude, localized wave packets, which have
received much interest recently in different areas of physics. Fiber lasers with their abundant …

Real-time spectroscopy based on an emerging time-stretch technique can map the spectral
information of optical waves into the time domain, opening several fascinating explorations …

Pulsation is a universal phenomenon that exists in diverse fields. For nonlinear optics, the
soliton pulsating behavior can be meaningful for fundamental physics and industrial …

When a laser cavity supports the propagation of several ultrashort pulses, these pulses can
form compact bound states called soliton molecules. Soliton molecules are fascinating …

Mode-locked fiber lasers based on nonlinear polarization evolution can generate
femtosecond pulses with different pulse widths and rich spectral distributions for versatile …

Taking advantage of technology of spatio-temporal reconstruction and dispersive Fourier
transform (DFT), we experimentally observed the buildup dynamics of dissipative soliton in …

Soliton explosion refers to a striking nonlinear dynamics in dissipative systems. In this state,
a dissipative soliton collapses but returns back to its original state afterwards. Yet, the origin …

Solitons are revealed to undergo sudden structural collapse upon nonlinear propagation
and robust recurrence to the original state afterwards. Such fascinating dynamics, termed …

Soliton explosions, among the most exotic dynamics, have been extensively studied on
parameter invariant stationary solitons. However, the explosion dynamics are still largely …