Roadmap on multimode light shaping

M Piccardo, V Ginis, A Forbes, S Mahler… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Our ability to generate new distributions of light has been remarkably enhanced in recent
years. At the most fundamental level, these light patterns are obtained by ingeniously …

Rogue waves in nonlinear optics

M Tlidi, M Taki - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Understanding the phenomenon of rogue wave formation, often called extreme waves, in
diverse branches of nonlinear science has become one of the most attractive domains …

Robust three-dimensional high-order solitons and breathers in driven dissipative systems: a Kerr cavity realization

Y Sun, P Parra-Rivas, C Milián, YV Kartashov… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present a general approach to excite robust dissipative three-dimensional and high-
order solitons and breathers in passively driven nonlinear cavities. Our findings are …

Temporal localized structures in optical resonators

S Barland, S Coen, M Erkintalo, M Giudici… - … in Physics: X, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We review recent advances on temporal localized structures in optical resonators. Because
they can be individually addressed, localized structures may be used as elementary …

Light bullets in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger photonic topological insulators

SK Ivanov, YV Kartashov, L Torner - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We introduce a different class of thresholdless three-dimensional soliton states that form in
higher-order topological insulators based on a two-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger array …

Temporal localized Turing patterns in mode-locked semiconductor lasers

A Bartolo, N Vigne, M Marconi, G Beaudoin, K Pantzas… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Spatiotemporal mode-locking is a promising lasing regime for developing coherent sources
for multimode nonlinear photonics. In this paper we show that large-aspect-ratio vertical …

Dissipative light bullets in Kerr cavities: multistability, clustering, and rogue waves

SS Gopalakrishnan, K Panajotov, M Taki, M Tlidi - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
We report the existence of stable dissipative light bullets in Kerr cavities. These three-
dimensional (3D) localized structures consist of either an isolated light bullet (LB), bound …

[HTML][HTML] Multidimensional localized states in externally driven Kerr cavities with a parabolic spatiotemporal potential: a dimensional connection

Y Sun, P Parra-Rivas, F Mangini, S Wabnitz - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we study the bifurcation structures and the stability of multidimensional localized
states within coherently driven Kerr optical cavities with parabolic potentials in 1D, 2D, and …

Origin, bifurcation structure and stability of localized states in Kerr dispersive optical cavities

P Parra-Rivas, E Knobloch, L Gelens… - IMA Journal of Applied …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Localized coherent structures can form in externally driven dispersive optical cavities with a
Kerr-type non-linearity. Such systems are described by the Lugiato–Lefever (LL) equation …

Light gap bullets in defocusing media with optical lattices

Z Chen, Z Wu, J Zeng - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
Searching for three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons (also known as light/optical bullets)
has recently attracted keen theoretical and experimental interests in nonlinear physics …