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 …

Rogue waves and their generating mechanisms in different physical contexts

M Onorato, S Residori, U Bortolozzo, A Montina… - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
Rogue waves is the name given by oceanographers to isolated large amplitude waves, that
occur more frequently than expected for normal, Gaussian distributed, statistical events …

Deterministic vector freak waves

F Baronio, A Degasperis, M Conforti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2012 - arxiv.org
We construct and discuss a semi-rational, multi-parametric vector solution of coupled
nonlinear Schr\" odinger equations (Manakov system). This family of solutions includes …

Super rogue waves: observation of a higher-order breather in water waves

A Chabchoub, N Hoffmann, M Onorato, N Akhmediev - Physical Review X, 2012 - APS
Super rogue waves with an amplitude of up to 5 times the background value are observed in
a water-wave tank for the first time. Nonlinear focusing of the local wave amplitude occurs …

Vector rogue waves and baseband modulation instability in the defocusing regime

F Baronio, M Conforti, A Degasperis, S Lombardo… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We report and discuss analytical solutions of the vector nonlinear Schrödinger equation that
describe rogue waves in the defocusing regime. This family of solutions includes bright-dark …

Single-shot observation of optical rogue waves in integrable turbulence using time microscopy

P Suret, RE Koussaifi, A Tikan, C Evain… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Optical fibres are favourable tabletop laboratories to investigate both coherent and
incoherent nonlinear waves. In particular, exact solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear …

Breather-to-soliton transitions, nonlinear wave interactions, and modulational instability in a higher-order generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation

L Wang, JH Zhang, ZQ Wang, C Liu, M Li, FH Qi, R Guo - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
We study the nonlinear waves on constant backgrounds of the higher-order generalized
nonlinear Schrödinger (HGNLS) equation describing the propagation of ultrashort optical …

Recent progress in investigating optical rogue waves

N Akhmediev, JM Dudley, DR Solli… - Journal of optics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The science of rogue waves in optics is now over five years old, and it has emerged as an
area of broad interest to researchers across the physical sciences [1]. This area of study was …

Recent progress on optical rogue waves in fiber lasers: status, challenges, and perspectives

Y Song, Z Wang, C Wang, K Panajotov… - Advanced …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
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 …

Optical rogue waves in integrable turbulence

P Walczak, S Randoux, P Suret - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We report optical experiments allowing us to investigate integrable turbulence in the
focusing regime of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation (1D NLSE). In …