Experiments and theory have rapidly progressed on nonlinear optical extreme waves, showing that guided wave nonlinear optics and fiber lasers provide a relatively simple, accessible and controllable test bed for the observations and accurate statistical studies of extreme wave phenomena that obey the same universal rules, which apply to a large ensemble of different physical systems. With introductory material to make the subject area accessible to non-specialists such as graduate and Ph D 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.
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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
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Stefan Wabnitz obtained the Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ in 1982, the MS in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1983, and the Ph D in Applied Electromagnetism from the Italian Ministry of Education in 1988. He was with the Ugo Bordoni Foundation between 1985 and 1996. In 1996 he became full professor in Physics at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. Between 1999 and 2003 he was with Alcatel Research and Innovation Labs in France and with Xtera Communications in Texas. Since 2007 he is full professor the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Brescia, Italy. His research activities involve nonlinear propagation effects in optical communications and information processing devices. He is the author and co-author of over 700 international refereed papers, conference presentations, and book chapters. He is the Deputy Editor of Elsevier Optical Fiber Technology, a Fellow member of the Optical Society of America, and senior member of IEEE-Photonics Society.