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| DOI : 10.1038/nphys1740 |
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| Nature Physics 6 (2010) 790-795 |
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| The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics |
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| Bertrand Kibler 1Julien Fatome 1 |
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| (2010) |
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| The Peregrine soliton is a localized nonlinear structure predicted to exist over 25 years ago, but not so far experimentally observed in any physical system. It is of fundamental significance because it is localized in both time and space, and because it defines the limit of a wide class of solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE). Here, we use an analytic description of NLSE breather propagation to implement experiments in optical fibre generating femtosecond pulses with strong temporal and spatial localization, and near-ideal temporal Peregrine soliton characteristics. In showing that Peregrine soliton characteristics appear with initial conditions that do not correspond to the mathematical ideal, our results may impact widely on studies of hydrodynamic wave instabilities where the Peregrine soliton is considered a freak-wave prototype |
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| 1 : | Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB) |
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CNRS : UMR6303 – Université de Bourgogne |
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| 2 : | Centre de Mathématiques et de Leurs Applications (CMLA) |
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CNRS : UMR8536 – École normale supérieure de Cachan - ENS Cachan |
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| 3 : | Tampere University of Technology |
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Tampere University of Technology |
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| 4 : | Res Sch Phys Sci & Engn, Opt Sci Grp |
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Australian National University |
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| 5 : | Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (FEMTO-ST) |
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CNRS : UMR6174 – Université de Franche-Comté – Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard – Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques |
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| Domaine | : | Physique/Physique/Optique Science non linéaire/Formation de Structures et Solitons |
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| Contributeur : Christophe Finot | |
| Soumis le : Lundi 23 Août 2010, 09:45:51 | |
| Dernière modification le : Vendredi 4 Février 2011, 15:16:54 | |
