Organizers
Martijn de Sterke, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Mihaela Dinu, CACI-LGS Labs, USA
Sergey Turytsin, Aston University, UK
Stefan Wabnitz, La Sapienza University, Italy
Chris Xu, Cornell University, USA
The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the prediction of solitons in optical fibers by Akira Hasegawa and Frederick Tappert. Their seminal theroretical paper, “Transmission of stationary nonlinear optical pulses in dispersive dielectric fibers. I. Anomalous dispersion,” in Applied Physics Letters, can be considered the starting point of research and development of solitons in optics and photonics. Once the first experiments were reported, optical solitons became part of the fabric of photonics, with continuing fundamental research and development, as well as a myriad of applications.
The symposium honors the early pioneers, covers applications and addresses some of the emerging areas: Soliton molecules, soliton gases, rogue waves and developments in optical communications and pulse formations in lasers.
In particular, this symposium honors Linn Mollenauer, the scientist who first demonstrated solitons in optical fiber in 1980, and one of the towering figures in optical soliton experiments. Linn, who passed away in July 2021, spent his career at Bell Laboratories until retiring in 2003. During his research tenure, he demonstrated a wide range of nonlinear optical phenomena in fibers, such as short pulse solitons, soliton lasers and the soliton self-frequency shift.
Invited Speakers
Ilaria Christiani, University of Pavia, Italy
Generation and Propagation of Dissipative Optical Solitons in Fiber Cavities
Nick Doran, Aston University, UK
When Solitons Were Employed in a Commercial Communication System
Ildar Gabitov, University of Arizona, USA
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Goëry Genty, Tampereen Teknillinen Yliopisto, Finland
Solitons in Supercontinuum Generation
Philippe Grelu, University of Burgundy, France
Synchonization of Pulsating Optical Soliton Molecules
Ömer Ilday, Bilkent University, Turkey
Controlled Creation and Annihilation of Trapped Brownian Solitons for Superior Harmonic Modelocking
Bertrand Kibler, CNRS/Univ. Bourgogne, France
From Solitons to Breathers in Optical Fibers
Xiang Liu, Huawei, Hong Kong
Evolution from Optical Soliton to Coherent Modulation and Nonlinearity Mitigation in the 5G/F5G Era
Pavel Mamyshev, Nubis Communications, USA
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Curtis Menyuk, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Linn Mollenauer, Solitons in Birefringent Optical Fibers and PMD
Moti Segev, Technion, Israel
Superluminal k-gap Solitons in Photonic Time-Crystals
Pierre Suret, University of Lille, France
Soliton Gas: Optical Fiber Experiments and Theory
Dawn Tan, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Bragg Soliton Dynamics on an Ultra-Silicon-Rich Nitride Chip
Sergei Turytsin, Aston University, UK
Solitons in Fibre-Optic Systems: From Science to Technology