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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Frisquet, B.
• Kibler, B.
• Millot, G.

Titel

Collision of Akhmediev Breathers in Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Ist Teil von

• Physical review. X, 2013-12, Vol.3 (4), p.041032, Article 041032

Ort / Verlag

College Park: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We report here a novel fiber-based test bed using tailored spectral shaping of an optical-frequency comb to excite the formation of two Akhmediev breathers that collide during propagation. We have found specific initial conditions by controlling the phase and velocity differences between breathers that lead, with certainty, to their efficient collision and the appearance of a giant-amplitude wave. Temporal and spectral characteristics of the collision dynamics are in agreement with the corresponding analytical solution. We anticipate that experimental evidence of breather-collision dynamics is of fundamental importance in the understanding of extreme ocean waves and in other disciplines driven by the continuous nonlinear Schrödinger equation.