Focus Serial: Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics Several kinds of nonlinear optical effects have
been observed in recent years using silicon waveguides, and their device applications are …

Recent developments in nonlinear optics have led to the discovery of a new class of
ultrashort pulse, the 'optical similariton'. Optical similaritons arise when the interaction of …

Recent observations show that the probability of encountering an extremely large rogue
wave in the open ocean is much larger than expected from ordinary wave-amplitude …

An efficient algorithm, which exhibits a fourth-order global accuracy, for the numerical
solution of the normal and generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations is presented. It has …

We review supercontinuum generation in optical fibers for particular cases where the
nonlinear spectral broadening is induced by pump radiation from fiber-format sources …

Femtosecond pulses of light propagating along photonic-crystal fibres can generate a broad
optical supercontinuum,. This striking discovery has applications ranging from spectroscopy …

We observe spectral broadening of more than 350 nm, ie, a 3/10-octave span, upon
propagation of ultrashort 1.3-μm-wavelength optical pulses in a 4.7-mm-long silicon …

In this paper, the properties of nonsilica glasses and the related technology for
microstructured fiber fabrication are reviewed. Numerical simulation results are shown using …

The formulation of Schrödinger-like equations for nonlinear pulse propagation in a single-
mode microstructured optical fiber with a strongly frequency-dependent guided-mode profile …

We describe generalized nonlinear envelope equation modeling of sub-cycle dynamics on
the underlying electric field carrier during one-dimensional propagation in fused silica …