Nonlinear Guided Wave Optics (EPUB) von Stefan Wabnitz

With introductory material to make the subject area accessible to non-specialists such as graduate and PhD students, and researchers working in other areas where extreme waves are relevant, this book features contributions by prominent scientists in this emerging field and is a comprehensive treatment of optical extreme wave research.

Chapter 1: Extreme events in forced oscillatory media in 0, 1 and 2 dimensions

Chapter 2: Extreme waves in stimulated backscattering and frequency conversion processes

Chapter 3: Irreversibility and squeezing of shock waves

Chapter 4: Observation of the rupture of a photon dam in an optical fiber

Chapter 5: Instabilities and extreme events in all-normal dispersion mode-locked fibre lasers

Chapter 6: Extreme wave dynamics from incoherent dissipative solitons in fiber laser cavities

Chapter 7: Ubiquitous nature of modulation instability: from periodic to localized perturbations

Chapter 8: Rogue waves in photorefractive media

Chapter 9: Vector rogue waves driven by polarization instabilities

Chapter 10: Fundamental rogue waves and their superpositions in nonlinear integrable systems

Chapter 11: Are rogue waves really rogue?

Chapter 12: Rogue Waves in Integrable Turbulence: Semi-Classical Theory and Fast Measurements

Chapter 13: Rogue waves formation in a high birefringent fiber

Chapter 14: Spatiotemporal nonlinear dynamics in multimode fibers

Chapter 15: Noise-initiated dynamics in nonlinear fiber optics

Chapter 16: Cavity soliton dynamics and rogue waves in driven Kerr cavities