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 …

Real-time measurements of spontaneous breathers and rogue wave events in optical fibre modulation instability

M Närhi, B Wetzel, C Billet, S Toenger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Modulation instability is a fundamental process of nonlinear science, leading to the unstable
breakup of a constant amplitude solution of a physical system. There has been particular …

Incoherent spatial solitons in effectively instantaneous nonlinear media

C Rotschild, T Schwartz, O Cohen, M Segev - Nature Photonics, 2008 - nature.com
Incoherent optical spatial solitons are self-trapped beams with a multimodal structure that
varies randomly in time. They form when their diffraction-broadening, which is governed by …

Incoherent modulation instability in instantaneous nonlinear Kerr media

A Sauter, S Pitois, G Millot, A Picozzi - Optics letters, 2005 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally in an optical fiber system that partially
temporally incoherent light exhibits modulational instability during its propagation in an …

Spontaneous pattern formation due to modulation instability of incoherent white light in a photopolymerizable medium

IB Burgess, WE Shimmell… - Journal of the American …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Spontaneous pattern formation due to modulation instability was observed in a broad
uniform beam of incoherent white light propagating in an optically isotropic …

The dynamics of self-trapped beams of incoherent white light in a free-radical photopolymerizable medium

J Zhang, K Saravanamuttu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Detailed experimental studies of the dynamics of self-trapped beams of white light (400−
800 nm) in a photosensitive organosiloxane medium are presented. Self-trapped white light …

Nonlocal incoherent white-light solitons in logarithmically nonlinear media

M Shen, Q Wang, J Shi, Y Chen, X Wang - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2005 - APS
The propagation properties of white-light solitons in spatially nonlocal media with a
logarithmically nonlinearity are investigated theoretically. The existence curve of the …

Spontaneous emergence of nonlinear light waves and self-inscribed waveguide microstructure during the cationic polymerization of epoxides

DK Basker, MA Brook… - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report spontaneous pattern formation due to modulation instability (MI) of a broad,
uniform, incandescent beam as it propagates through a fluid medium undergoing cationic …

Spontaneous formation of 3-D optical and structural lattices from two orthogonal and mutually incoherent beams of white light propagating in a photopolymerisable …

IB Burgess, MR Ponte, K Saravanamuttu - Journal of Materials …, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
The spontaneous generation of 3-D lattices by an orthogonal pair of white light beams
propagating in a polymerisable organosiloxane medium is described. Lattice formation …

A soft photopolymer cuboid that computes with binary strings of white light

AD Hudson, MR Ponte, F Mahmood… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Next-generation stimuli–responsive materials must be configured with local computational
ability so that instead of a discrete on-off responsiveness, they sense, process and interact …