Professor Nail Akhmediev

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Prof. Nail Akhmediev, FOSA,
Optical Sciences Group, RSPhysSE,
Institute of Advanced Studies, ANU,
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

Phone: (61-2) 6125 - 0191
Fax: (61-2) 6125 - 5184
E-mail: nna124@rsphysse.anu.edu.au

Professor Nail Akhmediev is one of the leading researchers in theoretical nonlinear optics internationally. He is a Professor of Optical Sciences Group, ANU and a Key Researcher for the Australian Photonics CRC. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in recognition of his work on nonlinear guided optics. He is also a member Australian Optical Society. He is an associate editor of Optics Express. He is a member of scientific program committees for many international conferences in optics and nonlinear dynamics.

He has published over 200 papers in refereed international journals, more than 130 conference papers, several books including a book "Solitons, nonlinear pulses and beams" Chapman and Hall, London (1997) with Dr. Ankiewicz and several chapters in books. He is the recipient of the DSc degree from the Higher Qualification Commission for the Counsel of Ministers of the USSR, the PhD and the MS degrees both from Moscow State University.

Present PhD students: W. Chang and N. Devine

New PhD students are welcome to join our dynamic research team.

Website developed by: Rouslan A.

Books published by N. Akhmediev and A. Ankiewicz



1997	2003	2005	2008

Book chapters and review papers by N. Akhmediev:

N. Akhmediev and A. Ankiewicz, "Solitons as strange attractors", Chapter in book: Nonlinear waves: Classical and Quantum Aspects, Ed. by F. Kh. Abdullaev and V. V. Konotop, NATO Science Series: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 153, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2004, pp. 45-60. ISBN 1-4020-2188-7.

Akhmediev N. and Ankiewicz A., "Solitons around us: Integrable, Hamiltonian and Dissipative systems", Chapter in book: Optical Solitons: Theoretical and Experiemntal Challenges, Ed. by K. Porsezian and V. C. Kurakose, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2003, pp. 105-126.

G. E. Town, N. Akhmediev and J. M. Soto-Crespo, Optical Fiber Soliton Lasers, Chapter in book: Optical Solitons: Theoretical and Experimental Challenges, Ed. by K. Porsezian and V. C. Kurakose, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2003, pp.265-298.

N. Akhmediev, A. A. Sukhorukov and A. Ankiewicz, Multi-soliton complexes, In: Contemporary Mathematics ,Volume 301, The Legacy of the Inverse Scattering Transform in Applied Mathematics, Edited by SJerry Bona, Roy Choudhury and David Kaup, American Mathematical Society, 2002. ISBN 0-8218-3161-5, pp. 117-138.

Akhmediev N. and Ankiewicz A., Solitons of the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation, Chapter in book: Spatial Solitons, Ed. by S. Trillo and W. E. Toruellas, Springer, Berlin, pp. 311-342 (2001).

Akhmediev N., Deja vu in optics, Nature, 413, No 6853, pp. 267-268 (2001).

Akhmediev N., General Theory of Solitons, in ``Soliton-driven Photonics'', edited by A. D. Boardman and A. P. Sukhorukov, Kluver Academic Publishers, Netherlands, pp. 371-395 (2001).

Akhmediev N. and Ankiewicz A., Multi-Soliton Complexes, (Invited paper) Focus Issue of CHAOS on ``OPTICAL SOLITONS'', CHAOS, 10, 600-612 (2000).

Akhmediev N. N. and Ankiewicz A., Theoretical Aspects of Incoherent solitons, Overview, Photonics Science News, 5, No 1, 13 - 18, (1999).

S. T. Cundiff, B. C. Collings, N. N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo, K. Bergman, W. H. Knox, Polarization-locked temporal vector solitons in an optical fiber Optics and Photonics News, 10, No 12, pp. 42--43, Special Issue "Optics in 1999", (1999).

G. E. Town and N. Akhmediev, Optical Fiber Lasers, The article in: Encyclopedia of Modern Optics. Volume 2, Editor-in-Chief: R. D. Guenther, 2004, pp. 475-484.

Akhmediev N. Spatial Solitons in Kerr and Kerr-like media , (Invited paper) Optical and Quantum Electronics, 30, 535-569 (1998).

The most recent publications in refereed journals by N. Akhmediev:

2008

A. Mussot, E. Louvergneaux, M. Taki, F. Reynaud, L. Delage and N. Akhmediev, "Optical fiber systems are convectively unstable", Physical Review Letters, (2008) in press.

A. Ankiewicz, W. Chen, P. St. J. Russell, M. Taki, and N. Akhmediev, "Velocity of heat dissipative solitons in optical fibers", Optics Letters, (2008) in press.

A. Ankiewicz and N. Akhmediev, "Comparison of Lagrangian approach and method of moments for reducing dimensionality of soliton dynamical systems", Chaos, 2008, in press.

W. Chang, A. Ankiewicz, J. M. Soto-Crespo and N. Akhmediev, "Dissipative soliton resonances", Physical Review A 78, 023830 (2008).

N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo and Ph. Grelu, "Roadmap to ultra-short record high-energy pulses out of laser oscillators", Physics Letters A 372, 3124-3128 (2008).

A. Ankiewicz, N. Devine, N. Akhmediev and J. M. Soto-Crespo, " Continuously self-focusing and continuously self-defocusing two-dimensional beams in dissipative media", Physical Review A 77, 033840 (2008).

N. Akhmediev, P. St. J. Russell, M. Taki and J. M. Soto-Crespo, "Heat dissipative solitons in optical fibers", Physics Letters A 372, 1531-1534 (2008).

2007

N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo and Ph. Grelu 'Spatiotemporal optical solitons in nonlinear dissipative media: From stationary light bullets to pulsating complexes', Chaos 17 , 037112 (2007).

A.Ankiewicz, N. Devine, N. Akhmediev and J. M. Soto-Crespo, 'Dissipative solitons and antisolitons', Physics Letters A 370 , 454-458 (2007).

J. M. Soto-Crespo, Ph. Grelu, N. Akhmediev and N. Devine, 'Creeping solitons of the complex Ginzburg - Landau equation with a low-dimensional dynamical system model', Physics Letters A 362 , 31-36 (2007).

A. Ankiewicz, N. Akhmediev, N. Devine, Invited Paper, 'Dissipative solitons with a Lagrangian approach', Optical Fiber Technology, 13, 91-97 (2007).

W. Chang, A. Ankiewicz, N. Akhmediev and J. M. Soto-Crespo, 'Creeping solitons in dissipative systems and their bifurcations', Physical Review E 76 , 016607 (2007).

J. M. Soto-Crespo, Ph. Grelu, N. Akhmediev and N. Devine, 'Soliton complexes in dissipative systems: vibrating, shaking and mixed soliton pairs', Physical Review E 75 , 016613 (2007).

2006

E. Tsoy and N. Akhmediev, 'Dynamics and interaction of pulses in the modified Manakov model', Optics Communications 266 , No 2, 660-668 (2006).

J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. Akhmediev, and Ph. Grelu, 'Optical bullets and double bullet complexes in dissipative systems', Physical Review E 74 , 046612 (2006).

J. M. Soto-Crespo, Ph. Grelu and N. Akhmediev, ' Optical bullets and "rockets" in nonlinear dissipative systems and their transformations and interactions', Optics Express, 14, No 23, pp. 4013-4025 (2006).

E. Tsoy, A. Ankiewicz and N. Akhmediev, 'Dynamical models for dissipative localized waves of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation', Physical Review E 73, 036621 (1-10) (2006).

T. Kanna, M. Lakshmanan, P. Tchofo Dinda and N. Akhmediev, 'Soliton collisions with shape change by intensity redistribution in mixed coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations', Physical Review E 73, 026604 (1-15) (2006).

2005

N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo, M. Grapinet and Ph. Grelu, Invited Paper, 'Dissipative soliton interactions inside a fiber laser cavity', Optical Fiber Technology, 11, 209-228 (2005).

P. Grelu, J. M. Soto-Crespo and N. Akhmediev, 'Light bullets and dynamic pattern formation in nonlinear dissipative systems', Optics Express, 13, No 23, pp. 9352-9360, (2005).

K. Maruno, A. Ankiewicz and N. Akhmediev, 'Dissipative solitons of the discrete complex cubic quintic Ginzburg Landau equation', Physics Letters A 347, pp. 231-240 (2005).

E. Tsoy and N. Akhmediev, 'Bifurcations from stationary to pulsating solitons in the cubic quintic complex Ginzburg Landau equation', Physics Letters A 343, pp. 417-422 (2005).

N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo, M. Grapinet and Ph. Grelu, 'Dissipative soliton pulsations with periods beyond the laser cavity round trip time', J. Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials, 14 , No 2, 177-194 (2005).

J. M. Soto-Crespo, and N. Akhmediev, 'Soliton as strange attractor: Nonlinear synchronization and chaos', Physical Review Letters, 95, 024101 (2005).

J. M. Soto-Crespo, and N. Akhmediev, "Exploding soliton and front solutions of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation", Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 69 , pp. 526-536 (2005).

2004

Ph. Grelu and N. Akhmediev, 'Group interactions of dissipative solitons in a laser cavity: The case of 2+1', Optics Express, 12, No 14, 3184-3189 (2004).

T. Kanna, E. Tsoy, N. Akhmediev, On the solution of multicomponent nonlinear Schrodinger equation with mixed nonlinearities, Physics Letters A, 330, No 3-4, 224-229 (2004).

N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo, Strongly Asymmetric Soliton Explosions, Physical Review E 70, 036613 (2004).

J. M. Soto-Crespo, M. Grapinet, Ph. Grelu and N. Akhmediev, Bifurcations and multiple period soliton pulsations in a passively mode-locked fiber laser, Physical Review E 70, 066612 (2004).

2003

N. Akhmediev and J. M. Soto-Crespo, Exploding solitons and Shil'nikov's Theorem, Phys. Lett. A 317, 287 -- 292 (2003).

A. Ankiewicz and N. Akhmediev, Stability analysis for solitons in planar waveguides, fibres and couplers using Hamiltonian concepts, IEE Proceedings, Optoelectronics, 150, No 6, pp.519-526 (2003).

J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. Akhmediev, Ph. Grelu and F. Belhache, Quantized separations of phase-locked soliton pairs in fiber lasers, Optics Letters, 28, No 19, 1757-1759 (2003).

J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. Akhmediev and A. Ankiewicz, "Motion and stability properties of solitons in discrete dissipative structures'', Phys. Lett. A, 314, 126-130 (2003).

A. Ankiewicz, K. Maruno, and N. Akhmediev, ``Periodic and optical soliton solutions of the quintic complex Swift-Hohenberg equation'', Physics Letters A, 308, 397-404 (2003).

A. A. Sukhorukov and N. Akhmediev, Multiport soliton devices with controllable transmission, Opt. Lett., 28, 908-910 (2003).

K. Maruno, A. Ankiewicz, and N. Akhmediev, Exact localized and periodic solutions of the discrete complex Ginzburg-Landau equation'', Optics Communications, 221, 199-209 (2003).

K. Maruno, A. Ankiewicz, and N. Akhmediev, Exact soliton solutions of the one-dimensional complex Swift-Hohenberg equation, Physica D 176, 44-66 (2003).

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