Machine learning analysis of extreme events in optical fibre modulation instability

M Närhi, L Salmela, J Toivonen, C Billet… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Limits of coherent supercontinuum generation in normal dispersion fibers

AM Heidt, JS Feehan, JHV Price, T Feurer - JOSA B, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We study the largely unexplored transition between coherent and noise-seeded incoherent
continuum generation in all-normal dispersion (ANDi) fibers and show that highly coherent …

Universal mechanism for the binding of temporal cavity solitons

Y Wang, F Leo, J Fatome, M Erkintalo, SG Murdoch… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Temporal cavity solitons (CSs) are pulses of light that can persist in coherently driven
passive resonators, such as fiber ring resonators and monolithic Kerr microresonators. While …

Recent advances in supercontinuum generation in specialty optical fibers

T Sylvestre, E Genier, AN Ghosh, P Bowen, G Genty… - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The physics and applications of fiber-based supercontinuum (SC) sources have been a
subject of intense interest over the last decade, with significant impact on both basic science …

Advances in mid-infrared spectroscopy enabled by supercontinuum laser sources

I Zorin, P Gattinger, A Ebner, M Brandstetter - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Supercontinuum sources are all-fiber pulsed laser-driven systems that provide high power
spectral densities within ultra-broadband spectral ranges. The tailored process of generating …

Raman rogue waves in a partially mode-locked fiber laser

AFJ Runge, C Aguergaray, NGR Broderick… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report on an experimental study of spectral fluctuations induced by intracavity Raman
conversion in a passively partially mode-locked, all-normal dispersion fiber laser …

Wave kinetics of random fibre lasers

DV Churkin, IV Kolokolov, EV Podivilov… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Traditional wave kinetics describes the slow evolution of systems with many degrees of
freedom to equilibrium via numerous weak non-linear interactions and fails for very …

Coherence and shot-to-shot spectral fluctuations in noise-like ultrafast fiber lasers

AFJ Runge, C Aguergaray, NGR Broderick… - Optics Letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We report on experimental studies of coherence and fluctuations in noise-like pulse trains
generated by ultrafast fiber oscillators. By measuring the degree of first-order coherence …

Polarization noise places severe constraints on coherence of all-normal dispersion femtosecond supercontinuum generation

I Bravo Gonzalo, RD Engelsholm, MP Sørensen… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Supercontinuum (SC) generated with all-normal dispersion (ANDi) fibers has been of
special interest in recent years due to its potentially superior coherence properties when …