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PUBLISHED ONLINE: 22 AUGUST 2010 | DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS1740
The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics
B. Kibler1
, J. Fatome1
, C. Finot1
, G. Millot1
, F. Dias2,3
, G. Genty4
, N. Akhmediev5
and J. M. Dudley6
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The Peregrine soliton is a localized nonlinear structure pre-
dicted to exist over 25 years ago, but not so far experimentally
observed in any physical system1
. It is of fundamental signif-
icance because it is localized in both time and space, and be-
cause it defines the limit of a wide class of solutions to the non-
linear Schrödinger equation (NLSE). Here, we use an analytic
description of NLSE breather propagation2

Source: Akhmediev, Nail - Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University
Australian National University, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Optical Sciences Group
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Centre de mathématiques et de leurs applications

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