The physics of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation in fiber optics: Rogue waves, modulation instability and self-focusing phenomena

F Copie, S Randoux, P Suret - Reviews in Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the different dynamical mechanisms leading to the emergence of coherent
structures in physical systems described by the integrable one-dimensional nonlinear …

Bound state soliton gas dynamics underlying the spontaneous modulational instability

A Gelash, D Agafontsev, V Zakharov, G El, S Randoux… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We investigate the fundamental phenomenon of the spontaneous, noise-induced
modulational instability (MI) of a plane wave. The statistical properties of the noise-induced …

Intracavity incoherent supercontinuum dynamics and rogue waves in a broadband dissipative soliton laser

F Meng, C Lapre, C Billet, T Sylvestre… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding dynamical complexity is one of the most important challenges in science.
Significant progress has recently been made in optics through the study of dissipative soliton …

Heterodyne optical time domain reflectometer combined with active loss compensation: A practical tool for investigating fermi pasta ulam recurrence process and …

C Naveau, G Vanderhaegen, P Szriftgiser… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We report recent results obtained with a novel optical fiber experimental setup based on a
heterodyne optical time-domain reflectometer in the context of FPU recurrence process …

Nondegenerate Kuznetsov-Ma solitons of Manakov equations and their physical spectra

WJ Che, SC Chen, C Liu, LC Zhao, N Akhmediev - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We study the dynamics of Kuznetsov-Ma solitons (KMSs) in the framework of vector
nonlinear Schrödinger (Manakov) equations. An exact multiparameter family of solutions for …

Soliton refraction by an optical soliton gas

P Suret, M Dufour, G Roberti, G El, F Copie… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We report an optical fiber experiment in which we investigate the interaction between an
individual soliton and a dense soliton gas. We evidence a refraction phenomenon where the …

Doubly periodic solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Recurrence, period doubling, and amplification outside the conventional modulation …

M Conforti, A Mussot, A Kudlinski, S Trillo… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Solitons on a finite background, also called breathers, are solutions of the focusing
nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which play a pivotal role in the description of rogue waves …

Statistical properties of the nonlinear stage of modulation instability in fiber optics

AE Kraych, D Agafontsev, S Randoux, P Suret - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We present an optical fiber experiment in which we examine the space-time evolution of a
modulationally unstable plane wave initially perturbed by a small noise. Using a …

[HTML][HTML] Pure quartic wave modulation in optical fiber with the presence of self-steepening and intrapulse Raman scattering response

CGL Tiofack, CB Tabi, H Tagwo, TC Kofané - Physics Letters A, 2023 - Elsevier
Modulational instability (MI) is addressed in an optical fiber under competing effects
between pure-quartic dispersion (PQD), self-steepening, and intrapulse Raman response …

[HTML][HTML] Mode conversions and molecular forms of breathers under parameter control

X Liu, H Zhang, Y Yan, W Liu - Physics Letters A, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the optical breather and its molecular form in optical fiber systems are
considered as the main research object. Mode conversions and interactions between …