Random distributed feedback fibre lasers

SK Turitsyn, SA Babin, DV Churkin, ID Vatnik, M Nikulin… - Physics reports, 2014 - Elsevier
The concept of random lasers exploiting multiple scattering of photons in an amplifying
disordered medium in order to generate coherent light without a traditional laser resonator …

Optical wave turbulence: Towards a unified nonequilibrium thermodynamic formulation of statistical nonlinear optics

A Picozzi, J Garnier, T Hansson, P Suret, S Randoux… - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
The nonlinear propagation of coherent optical fields has been extensively explored in the
framework of nonlinear optics, while the linear propagation of incoherent fields has been …

Recent progress in investigating optical rogue waves

N Akhmediev, JM Dudley, DR Solli… - Journal of optics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

The laminar–turbulent transition in a fibre laser

EG Turitsyna, SV Smirnov, S Sugavanam, N Tarasov… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Studying the transition from a linearly stable coherent laminar state to a highly disordered
state of turbulence is conceptually and technically challenging, and of great interest because …

Condensation and thermalization of classsical optical waves in a waveguide

P Aschieri, J Garnier, C Michel, V Doya, A Picozzi - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2011 - APS
We consider the long-term evolution of a random nonlinear wave that propagates in a
multimode optical waveguide. The optical wave exhibits a thermalization process …

Observation of optical undular bores in multiple four-wave mixing

J Fatome, C Finot, G Millot, A Armaroli, S Trillo - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
We demonstrate that wave-breaking dramatically affects the dynamics of nonlinear
frequency conversion processes that operate in the regime of high efficiency (strong multiple …

Analysis of laser radiation using the Nonlinear Fourier transform

S Sugavanam, MK Kopae, J Peng, JE Prilepsky… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Modern high-power lasers exhibit a rich diversity of nonlinear dynamics, often featuring
nontrivial co-existence of linear dispersive waves and coherent structures. While the …

Modeling of CW Yb-doped fiber lasers with highly nonlinear cavity dynamics

SK Turitsyn, AE Bednyakova, MP Fedoruk, AI Latkin… - Optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We develop a theoretical framework for modeling of continuous wave Yb-doped fiber lasers
with highly nonlinear cavity dynamics. The developed approach has shown good agreement …

Inverse four-wave mixing and self-parametric amplification in optical fibre

SK Turitsyn, AE Bednyakova, MP Fedoruk… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
An important group of nonlinear processes in optical fibre involve the mixing of four waves
due to the intensity dependence of the refractive index. It is customary to distinguish …

One-dimensional optical wave turbulence: experiment and theory

J Laurie, U Bortolozzo, S Nazarenko, S Residori - Physics Reports, 2012 - Elsevier
We present a review of the latest developments in one-dimensional (1D) optical wave
turbulence (OWT). Based on an original experimental setup that allows for the …