English
Related papers

Related papers: Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics

200 papers

We show that rogue waves can be triggered naturally when a stable wave train enters a region of an opposing current flow. We demonstrate that the maximum amplitude of the rogue wave depends on the ratio between the current velocity, $ U_0…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-27 Miguel Onorato , Davide Proment , Alessandro Toffoli

We present a brief discussion on the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation for modeling the propagation of the deep-water wavetrains and a discussion on its doubly-localized breather solutions that can be connected to the sudden formation of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-01-08 Nikolay K. Vitanov , Amin Chabchoub , Norbert Hoffmann

Extensive numerical simulations were performed to investigate all stages of modulation instability development from the initial pulse of pico-second duration in photonic crystal fiber: quasi-solitons and dispersive waves formation, their…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 Dmitry Agafontsev

The issue of accounting of the wave breaking phenomenon in direct numerical simulations of oceanic waves is discussed. It is emphasized that this problem is crucial for the deterministic description of waves, and also for the dynamical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-04 Alexey Slunyaev , Anna Kokorina

The higher-order dispersive and nonlinear effects (alias {\it the perturbation terms}) like the third-order dispersion, the self-steepening, and the self-frequency shift play important roles in the study of the ultra-short optical pulse…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 Zhenya Yan , Chaoqing Dai

Waves traveling through random media exhibit random focusing that leads to extremely high wave intensities even in the absence of nonlinearities. Although such extreme events are present in a wide variety of physical systems and the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jakob J. Metzger , Ragnar Fleischmann , Theo Geisel

Over the past decade, the rogue wave debate has stimulated the comparison of predictions and observations among different branches of wave physics, particularly between hydrodynamics and optics, in situations where analogous dynamical…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 F. Baronio , B. Frisquet , S. Chen , G. Millot , S. Wabnitz , B. Kibler

We present exact rational solution for a modified nonlinear Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equation that takes into account quintic nonlinearity and nonlinear dispersion corrections to the cubic nonlinearity, which could be used to describe rogue…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-07-15 Li-Chen Zhao , Chong Liu , Zhan-ying Yang

The analytical nonautonomous rogons are reported for the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with variable coefficients in terms of rational-like functions by using the similarity transformation and direct ansatz. These obtained…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-05-20 Zhenya Yan

The modulation instability is a focusing mechanism responsible for the formation of strong wave localizations not only on the water surface, but also in a variety of nonlinear dispersive media. Such dynamics is initiated from the injection…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yuchen He , Andy Witt , Stefano Trillo , Amin Chabchoub , Norbert Hoffmann

We study the standing periodic waves in the semi-discrete integrable system modelled by the Ablowitz-Ladik equation. We have related the stability spectrum to the Lax spectrum by separating the variables and by finding the characteristic…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-03-31 Jinbing Chen , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

The generation of rogue waves is investigated via a nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation. In this system, modulation instability is suppressed and is usually expected that rogue wave formation would also be limited. On the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-26 Theodoros P. Horikis , Mark J. Ablowitz

In this paper, we report the emergence of breather and super rogue waves in a modified Noguchi electrical transmission line and demonstrate that both phenomena arise from baseband modulational instability. We then systematically examine the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-29 N. Sinthuja , M. Senthilvelan , K. Murali

Rankine vortex charateristics of a partially coherent optical vortex are explored using classical and physical optics. Unlike a perfectly coherent vortex mode, the circulation is not quantized. Excess circulation is predicted owing to the…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-27 Grover A. Swartzlander, , Raul I. Hernandez-Aranda

Rogue waves are associated with various ocean processes, both at the coast and in the open ocean. In either zone, inhomogeneities in the wave field caused by shoaling, crossing seas or current interactions disturb wave statistics,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Saulo Mendes , Ina Teutsch , Jérôme Kasparian

Modulation instability, rogue wave and spectral analysis are investigated for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with the higher-order terms. The modulation instability distribution characteristics from the sixth-order to the eighth-order…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-06-24 Yunfei Yue , Lili Huang , Yong Chen

This paper numerically investigates the statistical properties of rogue waves and their generation mechanisms in integrable turbulence, taking the Gerdjikov-Ivanov (GI) equation as the research object. The eigenvalue spectra of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-08 Wei-Qi Peng , Xiao-Wang Lan , Shou-Fu Tian

Within the framework of the average approach and direct 3D PIC (particle-in-cell) simulations we demonstrate that the gyrotrons operating in the regime of developed turbulence can sporadically emit "giant" spikes with intensities a factor…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-20 N. S. Ginzburg , R. M. Rozental , A. S. Sergeev , A. E. Fedotov , I. V. Zotova , V. P. Tarakanov

The shoaling of surface gravity waves has been acknowledged as a mechanism of rogue wave formation. This problem is generally reduced to water waves passing over a step, but non-equilibrium physics allows finite slopes to be considered.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-19 Saulo Mendes , Jérôme Kasparian

The issue of a recurrence of the modulationally unstable water wave trains within the framework of the fully nonlinear potential Euler equations is addressed. It is examined, in particular, if a modulation which appears from nowhere (i.e.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-05 Alexey Slunyaev , Alexander Dosaev