Recent years have seen the rapid growth and development of the field of smart photonics,
where machine-learning algorithms are being matched to optical systems to add new …

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 …

Q switching (QS) and mode locking (ML) are the two main techniques enabling generation
of ultrashort pulses. Here, we report the first observation of pulse evolution and dynamics in …

Ultrashort optical pulses propagating in a dissipative nonlinear system can interact and bind
stably, forming optical soliton molecules. Soliton molecules in ultrafast lasers are under …

As an important imaging technique, holography has been realized with different physical
dimensions of light, including polarization, wavelength, and time. Recently, quantum …

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 …

The need to measure high repetition rate ultrafast processes cuts across multiple areas of
science. The last decade has seen tremendous advances in the development and …

We investigate the fundamental phenomenon of the spontaneous, noise-induced
modulational instability (MI) of a plane wave. The statistical properties of the noise-induced …

A central research area in nonlinear science is the study of instabilities that drive extreme
events. Unfortunately, techniques for measuring such phenomena often provide only partial …

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 …