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Complex extreme nonlinear waves: classical and quantum theory for new computing models
The historical role of nonlinear waves in developing the science of complexity, and also their physical feature of being a widespread paradigm in optics, establishes a bridge between two diverse and fundamental fields that can open an immeasurable number of new routes. In what follows, we present our most important results on nonlinear waves in classical and quantum nonlinear optics. About classical phenomenology, we lay the groundwork for establishing one uniform theory of dispersive shock waves, and for controlling complex nonlinear regimes through simple integer topological invariants. The second quantized field theory of optical propagation in nonlinear dispersive media allows us to perform numerical simulations of quantum solitons and the quantum nonlinear box problem. The complexity of light propagation in nonlinear media is here examined from all the main points of view: extreme phenomena, recurrence, control, modulation instability, and so forth. Such an analysis has a major, significant goal: answering the question can nonlinear waves do computation? For this purpose, our study towards the realization of an all-optical computer, able to do computation by implementing machine learning algorithms, is illustrated. The first all-optical realization of the Ising machine and the theoretical foundations of the random optical machine are here reported. We believe that this treatise is a fundamental study for the application of nonlinear waves to new computational techniques, disclosing new procedures to the control of extreme waves, and to the design of new quantum sources and non-classical state generators for future quantum technologies, also giving incredible insights about all-optical reservoir computing. Can nonlinear waves do computation? Our random optical machine draws the route for a positive answer to this question, substituting the randomness either with the uncertainty of quantum noise effects on light propagation or with the arbitrariness of classical, extremely nonlinear regimes, as similarly done by random projection methods and extreme learning machines
Rogue wave modes for the coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system with three components: A computational study
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Nonlocal Reductions of The Multicomponent Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation on Symmetric Spaces
Our aim is to develop the inverse scattering transform for multicomponent generalizations of nonlocal reductions of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation with PT symmetry related to symmetric spaces. This includes the spectral properties of the associated Lax operator, the Jost function, the scattering matrix, the minimum set of scattering data, and the fundamental analytic solutions. As main examples, we use theManakov vector Schrödinger equation (related to A.III-symmetric spaces) and the multicomponent NLS (MNLS) equations of Kulish–Sklyanin type (related to BD.I-symmetric spaces). Furthermore, we obtain one- and two-soliton solutions using an appropriate modification of the Zakharov–Shabat dressing method. We show that the MNLS equations of these types admit both regular and singular soliton configurations. Finally, we present different examples of one- and two-soliton solutions for both types of models, subject to different reductions
Stable higher-charge vortex solitons in the cubic-quintic medium with a ring potential
We put forward a model for trapping stable optical vortex solitons (VSs) with
high topological charges . The cubic-quintic nonlinear medium with an
imprinted ring-shaped modulation of the refractive index is shown to support
two branches of VSs, which are controlled by the radius, width and depth of the
modulation profile. While the lower-branch VSs are unstable in their nearly
whole existence domain, the upper branch is completely stable. Vortex solitons
with obey the anti-Vakhitov-Kolokolov stability criterion. The
results suggest possibilities for the creation of stable narrow optical VSs
with a low power, carrying higher vorticities.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Optics Letter
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