In this chapter, the history and main characteristics of rogue waves in the oceans are
introduced. Due to phenomenological and physical analogies between extreme events in …

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 …

Nonlinear action is known for its ability to create unusual phenomena and unexpected
events. Optical rogue waves-freak pulses of broadband light arising in nonlinear fiber-testify …

The rogue wave (RW) is a persistent topic in diverse fields of science including optics,
hydromechanics, and electromagnetics. Despite the extensive experimental confirmations …

Optical rogue waves are a nonlinear phenomenon that offers a unique opportunity to gain
fundamental insights into wave interaction and behavior, and the evolution of complex …

Mode-locked lasers are prone to exhibit a wide range of dynamics, many of them analyzed
within the concept of dissipative solitons. However, ultrafast laser dynamics goes beyond the …

We study rogue waves in an inhomogeneous nonlinear optical fiber with variable
coefficients. An exact rogue wave solution that describes rogue wave excitation and …

Over half a century, the field of nonlinear photonics has grown enormously and
demonstrated many intriguing nonlinear optical wave phenomena, such as solitons …

Fiber lasers offer tabletop nonlinear environments to mimic and study the complex dynamics
of nature. Optical rogue waves, rarely occurring extreme intensity fluctuations, are one of the …

Optical rogue waves are a class of pulses with extremely large amplitudes, whose
probability of occurrence unexpectedly deviates from Gaussian-law statistics. To date, the …