Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics

By John M. Dudley, Frédéric Dias, Miro Erkintalo, Goëry Genty. Nature Photonics, 2014

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Curious wave phenomena that occur in optical fibres due to the interplay of instability and nonlinear effects are reviewed. 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 propagation in an optical fibre and wave group propagation on deep water, but has since been generalized to describe many other processes in optics. This Review provides an overview of the field, concentrating primarily on propagation in optical fibre systems that exhibit nonlinear breather and soliton dynamics, but also discussing other optical systems in which extreme events have been reported. Although statistical features such as long-tailed probability distributions are often considered to be the defining feature of rogue waves, we emphasize the underlying physical processes that drive the appearance of extreme optical structures.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Roadmap on optical rogue waves and extreme events (2016, background): “In different circumstances, RWs have been also interpreted in the light of exact analytical breather solutions of the integrable 1D nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE), see sections 2–4 and [2, 4, 55, 108].”