Solitons in nonlinear lattices

YV Kartashov, BA Malomed, L Torner - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
This article offers a comprehensive survey of results obtained for solitons and complex
nonlinear wave patterns supported by nonlinear lattices (NLs), which represent a spatially …

Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

Z Chen, M Segev… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

Transport and Anderson localization in disordered two-dimensional photonic lattices

T Schwartz, G Bartal, S Fishman, M Segev - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
One of the most interesting phenomena in solid-state physics is Anderson localization,
which predicts that an electron may become immobile when placed in a disordered lattice …

Discrete solitons in optics

F Lederer, GI Stegeman, DN Christodoulides… - Physics Reports, 2008 - Elsevier
We provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the area of
optical discrete solitons. By nature, discrete solitons represent self-trapped wavepackets in …

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 …

Adaptive wavefront sha** for controlling nonlinear multimode interactions in optical fibres

O Tzang, AM Caravaca-Aguirre, K Wagner… - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Recent progress in wavefront sha** has enabled control of light propagation inside linear
media to focus and image through scattering objects. In particular, light propagation in …

Soliton shape and mobility control in optical lattices

YV Kartashov, VA Vysloukh, L Torner - Progress in Optics, 2009 - Elsevier
We present a progress overview focused on the recent theoretical and experimental
advances in the area of soliton manipulation in optical lattices. Optical lattices offer the …

Observation of discrete surface solitons

S Suntsov, KG Makris, DN Christodoulides… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
We report the first observation of discrete optical surface solitons at the interface between a
nonlinear self-focusing waveguide lattice and a continuous medium. The effect of power on …

Soliton interactions, soliton bifurcations and molecules, breather molecules, breather-to-soliton transitions, and conservation laws for a nonlinear (3+ 1)-dimensional …

YL Ma, BQ Li - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
In this study, we employ the bilinear method to construct N th-order solutions for a nonlinear
(3+ 1)-dimensional shallow water equation. Subsequently, we delve into a comprehensive …

Condensation and thermalization of classsical optical waves in a waveguide

P Aschieri, J Garnier, C Michel, V Doya, A Picozzi - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2011 - APS
We consider the long-term evolution of a random nonlinear wave that propagates in a
multimode optical waveguide. The optical wave exhibits a thermalization process …