Rogue waves and analogies in optics and oceanography

JM Dudley, G Genty, A Mussot, A Chabchoub… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Real-time observation of the buildup of soliton molecules

X Liu, X Yao, Y Cui - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Real-time spectroscopy access to ultrafast fiber lasers opens new opportunities for exploring
complex soliton interaction dynamics. Here, we have reported the first observation, to the …

Revealing the buildup dynamics of harmonic mode‐locking states in ultrafast lasers

X Liu, M Pang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Harmonic mode‐locking (HML) is an important technique enabling the generation of high‐
repetition‐rate ultrashort pulses. Using an emerging time‐stretch dispersive Fourier …

Recent advances in real-time spectrum measurement of soliton dynamics by dispersive Fourier transformation

Y Wang, C Wang, F Zhang, J Guo, C Ma… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Mode-locking lasers have not only produced huge economic benefits in industrial fields and
scientific research, but also provided an excellent platform to study diverse soliton …

Real-time observation of dissipative soliton formation in nonlinear polarization rotation mode-locked fibre lasers

J Peng, M Sorokina, S Sugavanam, N Tarasov… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Formation of coherent structures and patterns from unstable uniform state or noise is a
fundamental physical phenomenon that occurs in various areas of science ranging from …

Revealing the behavior of soliton buildup in a mode-locked laser

X Liu, Y Cui - Advanced Photonics, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Real-time spectroscopy based on an emerging time-stretch technique can map the spectral
information of optical waves into the time domain, opening several fascinating explorations …

Visualizing the “invisible” soliton pulsation in an ultrafast laser

M Liu, ZW Wei, H Li, TJ Li, AP Luo… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pulsation is a universal phenomenon that exists in diverse fields. For nonlinear optics, the
soliton pulsating behavior can be meaningful for fundamental physics and industrial …

Buildup dynamics of dissipative soliton in an ultrafast fiber laser with net-normal dispersion

HJ Chen, M Liu, J Yao, S Hu, JB He, AP Luo, WC Xu… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Taking advantage of technology of spatio-temporal reconstruction and dispersive Fourier
transform (DFT), we experimentally observed the buildup dynamics of dissipative soliton in …

Intelligent control of mode-locked femtosecond pulses by time-stretch-assisted real-time spectral analysis

G Pu, L Yi, L Zhang, C Luo, Z Li, W Hu - Light: Science & Applications, 2020 - nature.com
Mode-locked fiber lasers based on nonlinear polarization evolution can generate
femtosecond pulses with different pulse widths and rich spectral distributions for versatile …

Real-time multispeckle spectral-temporal measurement unveils the complexity of spatiotemporal solitons

Y Guo, X Wen, W Lin, W Wang, X Wei… - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
The dynamics of three-dimensional (3D) dissipative solitons originated from spatiotemporal
interactions share many common characteristics with other multi-dimensional phenomena …