Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics

JM Dudley, F Dias, M Erkintalo, G Genty - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
Optical rogue waves are rare, extreme fluctuations in the value of an optical field. The
term'optical rogue wave'was first used in the context of an analogy between pulse …

Modulation instability in dispersion oscillating fibers

A Mussot, M Conforti, S Trillo, F Copie… - Advances in Optics and …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In this review we present recent theoretical and experimental progress on modulation
instability and parametric amplification processes in dispersion oscillating fibers. These …

Optical analogue of the dynamical Casimir effect in a dispersion-oscillating fibre

S Vezzoli, A Mussot, N Westerberg, A Kudlinski… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
The dynamical Casimir effect is the generation of pairs of real particles or photons from the
vacuum as a result of a non-adiabatic change of a system parameter or boundary condition …

Propagation of dissipative simple vortex-, necklace-and azimuthon-shaped beams in Kerr and non-Kerr negative-refractive-index materials beyond the slowly varying …

LT Megne, CB Tabi, JAA Otsobo, CM Muiva… - Nonlinear …, 2023 - Springer
We present an explicit derivation of a (3+ 1)-dimensional [(3+ 1) D] cubic-quintic-septic
complex Ginzburg–Landau (CQS-CGL) equation, including diffraction, linear dispersions up …

Aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities

SV Gurevich, F Maucher, J Javaloyes - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
The compensation of chromatic dispersion opened new avenues and extended the level of
control upon pattern formation in the temporal domain. In this paper, we propose the use of a …

Competing four-wave mixing processes in dispersion oscillating telecom fiber

C Finot, J Fatome, A Sysoliatin, A Kosolapov… - Optics Letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally study the dynamics of the generation of multiple sidebands by means of
a quasi-phase-matched four-wave mixing (FWM) process occurring in a dispersion …

Heteroclinic structure of parametric resonance in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

M Conforti, A Mussot, A Kudlinski, S Rota Nodari… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We show that the nonlinear stage of modulational instability induced by parametric driving in
the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation can be accurately described by combining …

Spatial solitons and stability in the one-dimensional and the two-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with fourth-order diffraction and parity-time …

CGL Tiofack, FII Ndzana, A Mohamadou, TC Kofane - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
We investigate the existence and stability of solitons in parity-time (PT)-symmetric optical
media characterized by a generic complex hyperbolic refractive index distribution and fourth …

Generalized uncertainty principle and analogue of quantum gravity in optics

MC Braidotti, ZH Musslimani, C Conti - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2017 - Elsevier
The design of optical systems capable of processing and manipulating ultra-short pulses
and ultra-focused beams is highly challenging with far reaching fundamental technological …

Modulation instability in amplitude modulated dispersion oscillating fibers

F Copie, A Kudlinski, M Conforti, G Martinelli… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We investigate theoretically and experimentally the modulation instability process in a
dispersion oscillating fiber characterized by an amplitude modulation of its group velocity …