Spectrally periodic pulses for enhancement of optical nonlinear effects

JP Lourdesamy, AFJ Runge, TJ Alexander… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical effects are typically weak and enhancement techniques are often required
for practical applications. Here we introduce a method to enhance such effects by …

Dichromatic “breather molecules” in a mode-locked fiber laser

Y Cui, Y Zhang, L Huang, A Zhang, Z Liu, C Kuang… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Bound states of solitons (“molecules”) occur in various settings, playing an important role in
the operation of fiber lasers, optical emulation, encoding, and communications. Soliton …

Pure-quartic solitons and their generalizations—Theory and experiments

CM de Sterke, AFJ Runge, DD Hudson… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Solitons are wave packets that can propagate without changing shape by balancing
nonlinear effects with the effects of dispersion. In photonics, they have underpinned …

Heteronuclear soliton molecules with two frequencies

S Willms, O Melchert, S Bose, A Yulin, I Oreshnikov… - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Bound states of optical solitons represent ideal candidates to investigate fundamental
nonlinear wave interaction principles and have been shown to exhibit intriguing analogies to …

[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 …

Interactions of Airy beams in nonlinear media with fourth-order diffraction

W Zhao, L Ge, M Shen - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We investigate to the best of our knowledge the first time the interactions of in-phase and out-
of-phase Airy beams in Kerr, saturable and nonlocal nonlinear media with fourth-order …

Annular rogue waves in whispering gallery mode optical resonators

QH Cao, KL Geng, BW Zhu, YY Wang, J Li… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Based on the variable-coefficient Lugiato-Lefever equation, nonlinear dynamics of rogue
waves in whispering gallery mode optical resonators are studied. By means of the analytical …

Raman pure quartic solitons in Kerr microresonators

K Liu, S Yao, C Yang - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Pure quartic solitons (PQSs) are a unique class of solitons advantageous for developing
promising applications due to their broad and flat-top spectrum, as well as the distinctive …

Pure quartic solitons in dispersion-engineered aluminum nitride micro-cavities

S Yao, K Liu, C Yang - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Pure quartic soliton (PQS) is a new class of solitons demonstrated in recent years and
provides innovations in nonlinear optics and its applications. Generating PQSs in micro …

py-fmas: A python package for ultrashort optical pulse propagation in terms of forward models for the analytic signal

O Melchert, A Demircan - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a flexible, open-source Python package for the accurate simulation of the z-
propagation dynamics of ultrashort optical pulses in nonlinear waveguides, especially valid …