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20142026
most citedFarey tree and devil's staircase of frequency-locked breathers in ultrafast lasers

87 citations · 220 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.optics2026

Unified model for breathing solitons in fibre lasers: Mechanisms across below- and above-threshold regimes

Ying Zhang, Bo Yuan, Junsong Peng +6

The emergence of breathing solitons in mode-locked lasers presents a fundamental challenge for the theoretical modelling of mode locking, with the mechanisms underlying below- and…

physics.optics2025

Nonlinear dynamics in breathing-soliton lasers

Junsong Peng, Xiuqi Wu, Huiyu Kang +5

We review recent advances in the study of nonlinear dynamics in mode-locked fibre lasers operating in the breathing (pulsating) soliton regime. Leveraging advanced diagnostics and…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Unveiling the complexity of Arnold's tongues in a breathing-soliton laser

Xiuqi Wu, Junsong Peng, Bo Yuan +3

Synchronization occurs ubiquitously in nature and science. The synchronization regions generally broaden monotonically with the strength of the forcing, thereby featuring a tongue-…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Observation of optical chaotic solitons and modulated subharmonic route to chaos in mode-locked laser

Huiyu Kang, Anran Zhou, Ying Zhang +6

We reveal a new scenario for the transition of solitons to chaos in a mode-locked fiber laser: the modulated subharmonic route. Its universality is confirmed in two different laser…

physics.optics2023

Synchronisation, desynchronisation and intermediate regime of breathing solitons and soliton molecules in a laser cavity

Xiuqi Wu, Junsong Peng, Sonia Boscolo +2

We report on the experimental and numerical observations of synchronisation and desynchronisation of bound states of multiple breathing solitons (breathing soliton molecules) in an…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Control of spectral extreme events in ultrafast fibre lasers by a genetic algorithm

Xiuqi Wu, Ying Zhang, Junsong Peng +3

Extreme wave events or rogue waves (RWs) are both statistically rare and of exceptionally large amplitude. They are observed in many complex systems ranging from oceanic and optica…

physics.optics2023★ 12 cited

Predicting nonlinear reshaping of periodic signals in optical fibre with a neural network

Sonia Boscolo, J. M. Dudley, Christophe Finot

We deploy a supervised machine-learning model based on a neural network to predict the temporal and spectral reshaping of a simple sinusoidal modulation into a pulse train having a…

physics.optics2022★ 87 cited

Farey tree and devil's staircase of frequency-locked breathers in ultrafast lasers

Xiuqi Wu, Ying Zhang, Junsong Peng +3

Nonlinear systems with two competing frequencies show locking or resonances. In lasers, the two interacting frequencies can be the cavity repetition rate and a frequency externally…

physics.ed-ph2022★ 2 cited

Exploring Fresnel diffraction at a straight edge with a neural network

Christophe Finot, Sonia Boscolo

We describe a research project carried out with a group of undergraduate physics students and aimed at exploring the use of a neural network to study a classical problem in wave op…

physics.optics2021

Intelligent breathing soliton generation in ultrafast fibre lasers

Xiuqi Wu, Junsong Peng, Sonia Boscolo +3

Harnessing pulse generation from an ultrafast laser is a challenging task as reaching a specific mode-locked regime generally involves adjusting multiple control parameters, in con…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Breather molecular complexes in a passively mode-locked fibre laser

Junsong Peng, Zihan Zhao, Sonia Boscolo +4

Breathing solitons are nonlinear waves in which the energy concentrates in a localized and oscillatory fashion. Similarly to stationary solitons, breathers in dissipative systems c…

physics.optics2020

Modelling self-similar parabolic pulses in optical fibres with a neural network

Sonia Boscolo, John M. Dudley, Christophe Finot

We expand our previous analysis of nonlinear pulse shaping in optical fibres using machine learning [Opt. Laser Technol., 131 (2020) 106439] to the case of pulse propagation in the…

physics.optics2020★ 1 cited

Temporal optical besselon waves

Anastasiia Sheveleva, Ugo Andral, Bertrand Kibler +2

We analyse the temporal properties of the optical pulse wave that is obtained by applying a set of spectral phase shifts to continuous-wave light that is phase-modulated by a…

physics.optics2020★ 81 cited

Artificial neural networks for nonlinear pulse shaping in optical fibers

Sonia Boscolo, Christophe Finot

We use a supervised machine-learning model based on a neural network to predict the temporal and spectral intensity profiles of the pulses that form upon nonlinear propagation in o…

physics.optics2018★ 32 cited

Simple guidelines to predict self-phase modulation patterns

Christophe Finot, Frédéric Chaussard, Sonia Boscolo

We present a simple approach to predict the main features of optical spectra affected by self-phase modulation (SPM), which is based on regarding the spectrum modification as an in…

physics.optics2014

Optimisation of microstructured waveguides in z-cut LiNbO3 crystals

Huseyin Karakuzu, Mykhaylo Dubov, Sonia Boscolo +2

We present a practical approach to the numerical optimisation of the guiding properties of buried microstructured waveguides, which can be fabricated in a z-cut lithium niobate (Li…