The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics

Kibler, Bertrand; Fatome, Julien; Finot, Christophe; Millot, Guy; Dias, F; Genty, Goery; Akhmediev, Nail; Dudley, John M

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The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics

Date

2010

Authors

Kibler, Bertrand

Fatome, Julien

Finot, Christophe

Millot, Guy

Dias, F

Genty, Goery

Akhmediev, Nail

Dudley, John M

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Abstract

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