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20082026
most citedDirect observation of Rogue Waves in optical turbulence using Time Microscopy

253 citations · 1.5k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

nlin.PS2026

Exact Charge, Current, and Velocity Fields of Interacting Korteweg-de Vries Solitons

Thibault Bonnemain, François Copie, Pierre Suret +1

Solitons in integrable systems exhibit a dual wave-particle character, yet their identification as individual objects becomes ambiguous during interactions, where they deform and d…

nlin.PS2026

Diffraction of deep-water solitons

Filip Novkoski, Loïc Fache, Félicien Bonnefoy +6

Solitons are localized nonlinear wave packets that propagate without spreading because nonlinearity balances dispersion. Their robustness is well understood in effectively one-dime…

nlin.SI2026

Experimental observation of ballistic correlations in integrable turbulence

Elias Charnay, Adrien Escoubet, Francois Copie +4

Unequal-time correlation functions fundamentally characterize emergent statistical properties in complex systems, yet their direct measurement in experiments is challenging. We rep…

physics.optics2025

The effect of discrete-time evolution on thermalisation in a lattice

Thomas Moorcroft, Alberto Amo, François Copie +3

Particles subject to weak contact interactions in a finite-size lattice tend to thermalise. The Hamiltonian evolution ensures energy conservation and the final temperature is fully…

quant-ph2025

Bidimensional measurements of photon statistics within a multimodal temporal framework

C. Hainaut, K. Ouahrouche, A. Rancon +5

Ultrafast imaging of photon statistics in two dimensions is a powerful tool for probing non-equilibrium and transient optical phenomena, yet it remains experimentally challenging d…

nlin.PS2025

Experimental observation of the spatio-temporal dynamics of breather gases in a recirculating fiber loop

François Copie, Gino Biondini, Jeffrey Oregero +3

We report the first experimental observation of breather gases (BGs) in optics, realized in a recirculating fiber loop enabling virtually lossless propagation over km. Initi…

nlin.PS2025★ 4 cited

Controlled manipulation of solitons in a recirculating fiber loop using external potentials

François Copie, Pierre Suret, Stéphane Randoux

Optical solitons are self-sustained wave packets that propagate without distortion due to a balance between dispersion and nonlinearity. Their unique stability underpins key photon…

nlin.PS2025

Perturbed Nonlinear Evolution of Optical Soliton Gases: Growth and Decay in Integrable Turbulence

Loic Fache, Francois Copie, Pierre Suret +1

We present optical fiber experiments investigating the perturbed, non-integrable evolution of soliton gases (SGs) under weak linear damping and gain. By measuring the amplitude and…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025★ 2 cited

Observation of a generalized Gibbs ensemble in photonics

Alvise Bastianello, Alexey Tikan, Francois Copie +2

In generic classical and quantum many-body systems, where typically energy and particle number are the only conserved quantities, stationary states are described by thermal equilib…

nlin.PS2024★ 1 cited

Spontaneous modulational instability of elliptic periodic waves: the soliton condensate model

D. S. Agafontsev, T. Congy, G. A. El +3

We use the spectral theory of soliton gas for the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation (fNLSE) to describe the statistically stationary and spatially homogeneous…

nlin.PS2024★ 2 cited

Manipulation of strongly interacting solitons in optical fiber experiments

Alexandre Mucci, Pierre Suret, François Copie +3

The model underlying physics of guiding light in single-mode fibers -- the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE), reveals a remarkable balance of the fiber dispersi…

nlin.PS2024★ 1 cited

Dissipation-driven emergence of a soliton condensate in a nonlinear electrical transmission line

Loic Fache, Hervé Damart, François Copie +6

We present an experimental study on the perturbed evolution of Korteweg-deVries soliton gases in a weakly dissipative nonlinear electrical transmission line. The system's dynamics…

nlin.PS2023

Interaction of soliton gases in deep-water surface gravity waves

Loic Fache, Félicien Bonnefoy, Guillaume Ducrozet +8

Soliton gases represent large random soliton ensembles in physical systems that display integrable dynamics at the leading order. We report hydrodynamic experiments in which we inv…

nlin.PS2023

Multisoliton interactions approximating the dynamics of breather solutions

D. S. Agafontsev, A. A. Gelash, S. Randoux +1

Breather solutions are considered to be generally accepted models of rogue waves. However, breathers are not localized, while wavefields in nature can generally be considered as lo…

nlin.PS2023★ 26 cited

Statistics of extreme events in integrable turbulence

T. Congy, G. A. El, G. Roberti +3

We use the spectral kinetic theory of soliton gas to investigate the likelihood of extreme events in integrable turbulence described by the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schrö…

nlin.SI2023★ 2 cited

Soliton Gas: Theory, Numerics and Experiments

Pierre Suret, Stephane Randoux, Andrey Gelash +3

The concept of soliton gas was introduced in 1971 by V. Zakharov as an infinite collection of weakly interacting solitons in the framework of Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. In t…

nlin.PS2023★ 2 cited

Soliton refraction through an optical soliton gas

Pierre Suret, Martin Dufour, Giacomo Roberti +3

We report an optical fiber experiment in which we investigate the interaction between an individual soliton and a dense soliton gas. We evidence a refraction phenomenon where the t…

nlin.PS2023★ 16 cited

Space-time observation of the dynamics of soliton collisions in a recirculating optical fiber loop

François Copie, Pierre Suret, Stéphane Randoux

We present experiments performed in a recirculating fiber loop in which we realize the single-shot observation of the space and time interaction of two and three bright solitons. T…

physics.optics2022★ 10 cited

Spatio-temporal observation of higher-order modulation instability in a recirculating fiber loop

François Copie, Pierre Suret, Stéphane Randoux

We experimentaly investigate higher-order seeded modulation instability in an optical fiber experiment. The recirculating loop configuration with round-trip losses compensation ena…

physics.optics2022★ 32 cited

Topological properties of Floquet winding bands in a photonic lattice

Albert F. Adiyatullin, Lavi K. Upreti, Corentin Lechevalier +6

The engineering of synthetic materials characterised by more than one class of topological invariants is one of the current challenges of solid-state based and synthetic materials.…

nlin.PS2021★ 24 cited

Prediction and manipulation of hydrodynamic rogue waves via nonlinear spectral engineering

Alexey Tikan, Felicien Bonnefoy, Giacomo Roberti +10

Peregrine soliton (PS) is widely regarded as a prototype nonlinear structure capturing properties of rogue waves that emerge in the nonlinear propagation of unidirectional wave tra…

physics.flu-dyn2021

Nonlinear dispersion relation in integrable turbulence

Alexey Tikan, Felicien Bonnefoy, Guillaume Ducrozet +7

The concept of Nonlinear dispersion relation (NDR) is used in various fields of Physics (nonlinear optics, hydrodynamics, hydroelasticity, mechanics, quantum optics, plasma physics…

physics.optics2021

Single shot measurement of the photonic band structure in a Floquet-Bloch lattice realised with coupled fiber rings

Corentin Lechevalier, Clément Evain, Pierre Suret +3

Floquet-Bloch lattices are systems in which wave packets are subjet to periodic modulations both in time and space, showing rich dynamics. While this type of lattices is difficult…

nlin.PS2021★ 20 cited

Numerical spectral synthesis of breather gas for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Giacomo Roberti, Gennady El, Alexander Tovbis +3

We numerically realize breather gas for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This is done by building a random ensemble of N 50 breathers via the Darboux transform r…