Vector Rogue Waves and Baseband Modulation Instability in the Defocusing Regime

Fabio Baronio, Matteo Conforti, Antonio Degasperis, Sara Lombardo, Miguel Onorato, Stefan Wabnitz

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Abstract

We report and discuss analytical solutions of the vector nonlinear Schrödinger equation that describe rogue waves in the defocusing regime. This family of solutions includes bright-dark and dark-dark rogue waves. The link between modulational instability (MI) and rogue waves is displayed by showing that only a peculiar kind of MI, namely baseband MI, can sustain rogue-wave formation. The existence of vector rogue waves in the defocusing regime is expected to be a crucial progress in explaining extreme waves in a variety of physical scenarios described by multicomponent systems, from oceanography to optics and plasma physics.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)034101
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume113
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jul 2014

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