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Oppo, Gian-Luca and Firth, William J. (2024) Theory and application of cavity solitons in photonic devices. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. ISSN 1471-2962 (In Press)

Ackemann, Thorsten and Labeyrie, Guillaume and Baio, Giuseppe and Krešić, Ivor and Walker, Josh G. M. and Costa Boquete, Adrian and Griffin, Paul and Firth, William J. and Kaiser, Robin and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Robb, Gordon R.M. (2021) Self-organization in cold atoms mediated by diffractive coupling. Atoms, 9 (3). 35. ISSN 2218-2004

Firth, William J. and Geddes, John B. and Karst, Nathaniel J. and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2021) Analytic instability thresholds in folded Kerr resonators of arbitrary finesse. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 103 (2). 023510. ISSN 1050-2947

Firth, W.J. and Kresic, I. and Labeyrie, G. and Camara, A and Ackemann, T. (2017) Thick-medium model of transverse pattern formation in optically excited cold two-level atoms with a feedback mirror. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 96 (5). 053806. ISSN 1050-2947

Gustave, F. and Radwell, N. and McIntyre, C. and Toomey, J. P. and Kane, D. M. and Barland, S. and Firth, W. J. and Oppo, G.-L. and Ackemann, T. (2017) Observation of mode-locked spatial laser solitons. Physical Review Letters, 118 (4). 044102. ISSN 1079-7114

Camara, A. and Kaiser, R. and Labeyrie, G. and Firth, W. J. and Oppo, G.-L. and Robb, G. R. M. and Arnold, A.S and Ackemann, T. (2015) Optical pattern formation with a two-level nonlinearity. Physical Review A, 92 (1). 013820. ISSN 1050-2947

Robb, G. R. M. and Tesio, E. and Oppo, G.-L. and Firth, W. J. and Ackemann, T. and Bonifacio, R. (2015) Quantum threshold for optomechanical self-structuring in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Physical Review Letters, 114 (17). 173903. ISSN 1079-7114

Labeyrie, Guillaume G. and Kaiser, Robin and Tesio, Enrico and Monteiro Gomes, Pedro and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Firth, William and Robb, Gordon and Arnold, Aidan and Ackemann, Thorsten (2014) Optomechanical self-structuring of cold atoms. Optics and Photonics News, 25 (12). p. 50. ISSN 1047-6938

Tesio, E. and Robb, G.R.M. and Oppo, G.-L. and Gomes, P.M. and Ackemann, T. and Labeyrie, G. and Kaiser, R. and Firth, W.J. (2014) Self-organization in cold atomic gases : a synchronization perspective. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 372 (2027). 20140002. ISSN 1471-2962

Labeyrie, G. and Tesio, Enrico and Monteiro Gomes, Pedro and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Firth, William and Robb, Gordon and Arnold, Aidan and Kaiser, Robin and Ackemann, Thorsten (2014) Optomechanical self-structuring in a cold atomic gas. Nature Photonics, 8 (4). pp. 321-325. ISSN 1749-4885

Tesio, Enrico and Robb, Gordon and Ackemann, Thorsten and Firth, William and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2014) Kinetic theory for transverse optomechanical instabilities. Physical Review Letters, 112 (4). 043901. ISSN 1079-7114

Tesio, Enrico and Robb, Gordon and Ackemann, Thorsten and Firth, William and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2013) Dissipative solitons in the coupled dynamics of light and cold atoms. Optics Express, 21 (22). pp. 26144-26149. ISSN 1094-4087

Paulau, Pavel V. P.V. and Mcintyre, Craig C. and Noblet, Y. Y. and Radwell, Neal Matthew and Firth, William J. W.J. and Colet, Pere P. and Ackemann, Thorsten T. and Oppo, Gian Luca G.L. (2012) Adler synchronization of spatial laser solitons pinned by defects. Physical Review Letters, 108. ISSN 1079-7114

Tesio, Enrico and Robb, Gordon and Ackemann, Thorsten and Firth, William and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2012) Spontaneous optomechanical pattern formation in cold atoms. Physical Review A, 86 (3). 031801(R). ISSN 1050-2947

Paulau, P.V. and McIntyre, Craig and Noblet, Yoann and Radwell, Neal Matthew and Firth, William and Colet, Pere and Ackemann, Thorsten and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2012) Adler synchronization of spatial laser solitons pinned by defects. Physical Review Letters, 108 (21). 213904. ISSN 1079-7114

Paulau, Pavel and Mcintyre, Craig and Noblet, Yoann and Radwell, Neal Matthew and Firth, William and Colet, Pere and Ackemann, Thorsten and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2011) Adler synchronization of spatial laser solitons pinned by defects. arXiv.org. pp. 1-5.

Paulau, P. V. and Gomila, D. and Colet, P. and Malomed, B. A. and Firth, W. J. (2011) From one- to two-dimensional solitons in the Ginzburg-Landau model of lasers with frequency-selective feedback. Physical Review E, 84 (3). 036213. ISSN 2470-0053

Radwell, N. and McIntyre, C. and Scroggie, A. J. and Oppo, G. L. and Firth, W. J. and Ackemann, T. (2010) Erratum to: Switching spatial dissipative solitons in a VCSEL with frequency selective feedback. European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, 59 (1). p. 149. ISSN 1434-6060

Firth, W.J. (2010) Temporal cavity solitons buffering optical data. Nature Photonics, 4. pp. 415-417. ISSN 1749-4885

Firth, W.J. and Paulau, P.V. (2010) Soliton lasers stabilized by coupling to a resonant linear system. European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, 59 (1). pp. 13-21.

Paulau, P. V. and Gomila, D. and Colet, P. and Loiko, N. A. and Rosanov, N. N. and Ackemann, T. and Firth, W. J. (2010) Vortex solitons in lasers with feedback. Optics Express, 18 (9). pp. 8859-8866. ISSN 1094-4087

Ackemann, Thorsten and Firth, William J. and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2009) Fundamentals and applications of spatial dissipative solitons in photonic devices : [Chapter 6]. Advances in Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, 57. pp. 323-421.

Paulau, P.V. and Gomila, Damià and Colet, Pere and Matias, M.A. and Loiko, N.A. and Firth, W.J. (2009) Drifting instabilities of cavity solitons in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with frequency-selective feedback. Physical Review A, 80 (2). 023808. ISSN 1050-2947

Scroggie, Andrew and Firth, W.J. and Oppo, G.L., EU FET Open FunFACS (Funder) (2009) Cavity-soliton laser with frequency-selective feedback. Physical Review A, 80 (1). 013829. ISSN 1050-2947

Pedaci, F. and Barland, S. and Caboche, E. and Genevet, P. and Giudici, M. and Tredicce, J. R. and Ackemann, T. and Scroggie, A. J. and Firth, W. J. and Oppo, G. -L. and Tissoni, G. and Jaeger, R. (2009) All-optical delay line using semiconductor cavity solitons (vol 92, 011101, 2008). Applied Physics Letters, 94 (26). p. 269902. ISSN 0003-6951

Robb, G.R.M. and Burgess, R.T.L. and Firth, W.J. (2008) Enhancement of collective atomic recoil lasing due to pump phase modulation. Physical Review A, 78 (4). ISSN 1050-2947

Paulau, P.V. and Gomila, D. and Ackemann, T. and Loiko, N.A. and Firth, W.J. (2008) Self-localized structures in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with external feedback. Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 78 (1). 016212-016212. ISSN 2470-0053

Tanguy, Y. and Ackemann, T. and Firth, W.J. and Jäger, R. (2008) Realization of a semiconductor-based cavity soliton laser. Physical Review Letters, 100 (1). 013907. ISSN 1079-7114

Pedaci, F. and Barland, S. and Caboche, E. and Genevet, P. and Giudici, M. and Tredicce, J. R. and Ackemann, T. and Scroggie, A.J. and Firth, W.J. and Oppo, G.L. and Tissoni, G. and Jäger, R. (2008) All-optical delay line using semiconductor cavity solitons. Applied Physics Letters, 92 (1). 011101. ISSN 0003-6951

Robb, G.R.M. and Firth, W.J. (2007) Collective atomic recoil lasing with a partially coherent pump. Physical Review Letters, 99 (25). pp. 253601-253604. ISSN 1079-7114

Firth, W.J. and Columbo, L. and Scroggie, A. (2007) Proposed resolution of theory-experiment discrepancy in homoclinic snaking. Physical Review Letters, 99 (10). p. 104503. ISSN 1079-7114

Firth, W. J. and Columbo, L. and Maggipinto, T. (2007) On homoclinic snaking in optical systems. Chaos, 17 (3). -.

Paulau, P. V. and Scroggie, A. J. and Naumenko, A. and Ackemann, T. and Loiko, N. A. and Firth, W. J. (2007) Localized traveling waves in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with frequency-selective optical feedback. Physical Review E, 75 (5). -. ISSN 2470-0053

Gomila, Damia and Scroggie, A. J. and Firth, W. J. (2007) Bifurcation structure of dissipative solitons. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 227 (1). pp. 70-77. ISSN 0167-2789

Ackemann, T. and Pesch, M. and Lange, W. and Gomila, D. and Firth, W.J. and Oppo, G.L. (2007) Two-dimensional front dynamics and spatial solitons in a nonlinear optical system. Physical Review Letters, 99. 153902. ISSN 1079-7114

Firth, William J. and Yao, Alison M. (2006) Master equation for misaligned cavities. Journal of Modern Optics, 53 (14). pp. 2005-2010. ISSN 1362-3044

Scroggie, A J and Gomila, D and Firth, W J and Oppo, G L (2005) Spontaneous and induced motion of optical patterns. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 81 (7). pp. 963-968. ISSN 0946-2171

Firth, William J. and Yao, Alison M. (2005) Giant excess noise and transient gain in misaligned laser cavities. Physical Review Letters, 95 (7). 073903-1. ISSN 1079-7114

Geddes, John B. and Firth, William J. and Black, Kelly (2003) Pulse dynamics in an actively mode-locked laser. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2 (4). pp. 647-671. ISSN 1536-0040

Harkness, G.K. and Firth, W.J. and Oppo, G.L. and McSloy, J.M. (2002) Computationally determined existence and stability of transverse structures. I. Periodic optical patterns. Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 66 (4). 046605-1. ISSN 2470-0053

Scroggie, A.J. and McSloy, J.M. and Firth, W.J. (2002) Self-propelled cavity solitons in semiconductor microcavities. Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 66 (3). 036607-1. ISSN 2470-0053

Vladimirov, Andrei G. and McSloy, John M. and Skryabin, Dmitry V. and Firth, William J. (2002) Two-dimensional clusters of solitary structures in driven optical cavities. Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 65 (4). 046606-1. ISSN 2470-0053

Firth, W.J. and McSloy, J.M. and Harkness, G.K. and Oppo, G.L. (2002) Computationally determined existence and stability of transverse structures II: Multipeaked cavity solitons. Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 66 (4). 046606-046614. ISSN 2470-0053

Skryabin, D.V. and Yulin, A. and Michaelis, D. and Firth, W.J. and Oppo, G.-L. and Peschel, U. and Lederer, F. (2001) Perturbation theory for domain walls in the parametric Ginzburg-Landau equation. Physical Review E, 64 (5). 056618. ISSN 2470-0053

Firth, W.J. and Scroggie, A. and Oppo, G.L. (2001) Characterization, dynamics and stabilization of diffractive domain walls and dark ring cavity solitons in optical parametric oscillators. Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 63 (6). 066209 -066225. ISSN 2470-0053

Skryabin, Dmitry V. and Champneys, Alan R. and Firth, William J. (2000) Frequency selection by soliton excitation in nondegenerate intracavity down-conversion. Physical Review Letters, 84 (3). pp. 463-466. ISSN 1079-7114

Skryabin, Dmitry V. and Firth, William J. (1999) Interaction of cavity solitons in degenerate optical parametric oscillators. Optics Letters, 24 (15). pp. 1056-1058. ISSN 0146-9592

Ostrovskaya, Elena A. and Kivshar, Yuri S. and Skryabin, Dmitry V. and Firth, William J. (1999) Stability of multihump optical solitons. Physical Review Letters, 83 (2). pp. 296-299. ISSN 1079-7114

Skryabin, Dmitry V. and Firth, William J. (1999) Modulational instability of bright solitary waves in incoherently coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 60 (1). pp. 1019-1029. ISSN 2470-0053

Skryabin, Dmitry V. and Firth, William J. (1998) Modulational instability of solitary waves in nondegenerate three-wave mixing : the role of phase symmetries. Physical Review Letters, 81 (16). pp. 3379-3382. ISSN 1079-7114

Skryabin, Dmitry V. and Firth, William J. (1998) Instabilities of higher-order parametric solitons : filamentation versus coalescence. Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 58 (2). R1252 -R1255. ISSN 2470-0053

Martin, R. and Oppo, G. L. and Harkness, G. K. and Scroggie, A. J. and Firth, W. J. (1997) Controlling pattern formation and spatio-temporal disorder in nonlinear optics. Optics Express, 1 (1). pp. 39-43. ISSN 1094-4087

Firth, W J (1991) Chaos--predicting the unpredictable. BMJ, 303 (6817). pp. 1565-1568. ISSN 1756-1833

Book Section

Ackemann, Thorsten and Tesio, Enrico and Labeyrie, G. and Robb, Gordon and Monteiro Gomes, Pedro and Arnold, Aidan and Firth, William and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Kaiser, Robin; (2014) Optomechanical self-organization in cold atomic gases. In: 2013 Sixth "Rio De La Plata" Workshop on Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Photonics. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States, pp. 1-5.

Ackemann, T. and Labeyrie, G. and Tesio, E. and Gomes, P. and Oppo, G.L. and Firth, W.J. and Robb, G.R.M. and Arnold, A and Kaïser, R.; (2013) Hexagonal self-structuring due to optomechanical nonlinearities in cold atomic gases. In: Nonlinear Optics. Optical Society of America, USA. ISBN 9781557529770

Tesio, E. and Robb, G.R.M. and Ackemann, T. and Gomes, P. and Arnold, A. and Firth, W.J. and Oppo, G.L. and Labeyrie, G. and Kaïser, R.; (2013) Spontaneous opto-mechanical structures in cold atomic gases. In: 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013. IEEE. ISBN 9781479905935

Labeyrie, G. and Gomes, P. and Tesio, E. and Kaïser, R. and Firth, W and Robb, G and Oppo, G.L. and Ackemann, T.; (2013) Transverse self-organization in cold atoms due to opto-mechanical coupling. In: 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013. IEEE. ISBN 9781479905935

Ackemann, T. and Noblet, Y. and Paulau, P.V. and McIntyre, C. and Colet, P. and Firth, W. J. and Oppo, G-L; Malomed, B., ed. (2012) Frequency and phase locking of laser cavity solitons. In: Spontaneous symmetry breaking, self-trapping, and josephson oscillations in nonlinear systems. Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, 1 . Springer, pp. 49-88. ISBN 9783642212062

Ackemann, T. and Radwell, N. and McIntyre, C. and Firth, W. J. and Oppo, G. -L.; Panajotov, K and Sciamanna, M and Valle, AA and Michalzik, R, eds. (2010) Self-pulsing dynamics in a cavity soliton laser. In: Proceedings of SPIE 7720, Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics IV. Proceedings of SPIE . SPIE, BEL.

Ayoub, Moussa and Gutlich, B. and Denz, Cornelia and Papoff, Francesco and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Firth, William; Descalzi, Oreste and Clerc, Marc and Residori, Stefania and Assanto, Gaetano, eds. (2010) Dynamic control of localized structures in a nonlinear feedback experiment. In: Localized States in Physics: Solitons and Patterns. Springer, pp. 213-236. ISBN ISBN-10: 9783642165481

Ackemann, Thorsten and Firth, William; Akhmediev, N. and Ankiewicz, A., eds. (2005) Dissipative solitons in pattern-forming nonlinear optical systems : cavity solitons and feedback solitons. In: Dissipative solitons. Lecture Notes in Physics, 661 . Springer, pp. 55-100. ISBN 978-3-540-23373-2

Conference or Workshop Item

Ackemann, T. and Tanguy, Y. and Scroggie, A. and Yao, A. and Firth, W. J. and Oppo, G.-L. and Paulau, P. and Naumenko, A. V. and Loiko, N. A. and Jaeger, R. (2007) Realization of a cavity-soliton laser based on broad-area vertical-cavity devices with frequency-selective feedback. In: Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2007), 2007-03-26 - 2007-03-30.