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Rogue wave patterns in the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation and the derivative NLS equation are analytically studied. It is shown that when the free parameters in the analytical expressions of these rogue waves are large, these…
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This work presents two distinct approaches to estimating the exponent related to the distribution of optical rogue waves observed in supercontinuum generated in a single-mode fiber, that is, to quantifying the rogueness. The first is a…
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We study rogue wave excitation dynamics on a double-plane wave background through deriving rogue wave solution on the background. The results indicate that rogue wave still can be excited successfully from resonant perturbations with the…
On-chip integration of 2D materials provides a promising route towards next-generation integrated optical devices with performance beyond existing limits. Here, significantly enhanced spectral broadening induced by self-phase modulation…
Using a generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, we investigate the transformation of a fundamental rogue wave to a collection of solitons. Taking the third-order dispersion, self-steepening, and Raman-induced self-frequency shift as…
We introduce a modular approach for efficiently interfacing photonic integrated circuits with deep-sub-wavelength hybrid plasmonic functionality. We demonstrate that an off-the-shelf silicon-on-insulator waveguide can be post-processed into…
In this paper, we numerically show and discuss the existence and characteristics of rogue heat and diffusion waves. More specifically, we use two different nonlinear heat (diffusion) models and show that modulation instability leads to the…
We analytically study rogue-wave (RW) solutions and rational solitons of an integrable fifth-order nonlinear Schr\"odinger (FONLS) equation with three free parameters. It includes, as particular cases, the usual NLS, Hirota, and…
We experimentally show octave-spanning supercontinuum generation in a non-stoichiometric silicon-rich nitride waveguide when pumped by femtosecond pulses from an erbium fiber laser. The pulse energy and bandwidth are comparable to results…
Guided wave optics, including most prominently fiber optics and integrated photonics, very often considers only one or very few spatial modes of the waveguides. Despite being known and utilized for decades, multi-mode guided wave optics is…
We propose deep-subwavelength optical waveguides based on metal-dielectric multilayer indefinite metamaterials with ultrahigh effective refractive indices. Waveguide modes with different mode orders are systematically analyzed with…
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…