Nonlinear Guided Wave Optics (eBook)

Stefan Wabnitz obtained the Laurea Degree in electronics engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1982, an MS in electrical engineering from Caltech in 1983, and a PhD in applied electromagnetism from the Italian Ministry of Education in 1988. In 1996, he became a full professor in physics at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France.Since September 2007, he joined as a full professor of the Department of Electronics for Automation of the University of Brescia, Italy. His current research activities involve nonlinear propagation effects in high-bit-rate optical communication systems and in all-optical information processing devices. He is the author and co-author of more than 500 refereed papers and conference presentations, the deputy editor of Elsevier’s Optical Fiber Technology, and is a member of the Optical Society of America, and of the IEEE-Photonics Society.

Stefan Wabnitz obtained the Laurea Degree in electronics engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1982, an MS in electrical engineering from Caltech in 1983, and a PhD in applied electromagnetism from the Italian Ministry of Education in 1988. He was a researcher of the Optical Communications Department of the Ugo Bordoni Foundation between 1985 and 1996, where he contributed to the theory of nonlinear wave propagation in optical fibers and waveguides, with particular interest in wave instabilities and soliton phenomena. In 1996, he became a full professor in physics at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. Since September 2007, he joined as a full professor of the Department of Electronics for Automation of the University of Brescia, Italy. His current research activities involve nonlinear propagation effects in high-bit-rate optical communication systems and in all-optical information processing devices. He is the author and co-author of more than 500 refereed papers and conference presentations, the deputy editor of Elsevier’s Optical Fiber Technology, and is a member of the Optical Society of America, and of the IEEE-Photonics Society. In October 2008, he was nominated Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

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 fiberChapter
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