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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in France Leader Award
  • 2007 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the fields of ultrafast optics, nonlinear fiber optics, and supercontinuum generation.

Overview

John M. Dudley is affiliated with the University of Franche-Comté in France and has contributed extensively to research in ultrafast optics and nonlinear fiber optics.

Their work spans several main fields of study, including Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Within these disciplines, Dudley focuses on specialized subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Artificial Intelligence, and Acoustics and Ultrasonics.

The primary research topics covered by Dudley include:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing

Dudley has published numerous papers in prominent venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optics Letters
  • Scientific Reports
  • EPJ Web of Conferences
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Machine learning and applications in ultrafast photonics" (2020, Nature Photonics)
  • "Predicting ultrafast nonlinear dynamics in fibre optics with a recurrent neural network" (2021, Nature Machine Intelligence)
  • "Recent advances in supercontinuum generation in specialty optical fibers [Invited]" (2021, Journal of the Optical Society of America B)
  • "2-10 µm Mid-Infrared Fiber-Based Supercontinuum Laser Source: Experiment and Simulation" (2020, Laser & Photonics Review)
  • "Intracavity incoherent supercontinuum dynamics and rogue waves in a broadband dissipative soliton laser" (2021, Nature Communications)

Frequent coauthors collaborating on research include:

  • Goëry Genty
  • Christophe Finot
  • Lauri Salmela
  • Thibaut Sylvestre
  • Anastasiia Sheveleva

John M. Dudley was honored as an OSA Fellow in 2007 for contributions to the fields of ultrafast optics, nonlinear fiber optics, and supercontinuum generation.

Best Publications

  • Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber

    John M. Dudley;Goëry Genty;Stéphane Coen

  • The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics

    Bertrand Kibler;Julien Fatome;Christophe Finot;Guy Millot

  • Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics

    John M. Dudley;Frédéric Dias;Miro Erkintalo;Goëry Genty

  • Self-similar propagation and amplification of parabolic pulses in optical fibers.

    Martin E Fermann;Vladimir Kruglov;B C Thomsen;J M Dudley

  • Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers

    J. M. Dudley;J. R. Taylor

  • Coherence properties of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal and tapered optical fibers.

    John M. Dudley;Stéphane Coen

  • Modulation instability, Akhmediev Breathers and continuous wave supercontinuum generation.

    John M. Dudley;Goëry Genty;Frédéric Dias;Bertrand Kibler

  • Rogue waves and analogies in optics and oceanography

    John M. Dudley;Goëry Genty;Arnaud Mussot;Amin Chabchoub

  • Supercontinuum generation in air–silica microstructured fibers with nanosecond and femtosecond pulse pumping

    John M. Dudley;Laurent Provino;Nicolas Grossard;Hervé Maillotte

  • Observation of Kuznetsov-Ma soliton dynamics in optical fibre

    Bertrand Kibler;Julien Fatome;Christophe Finot;Guy Millot

  • Ten years of nonlinear optics in photonic crystal fibre

    John M. Dudley;J. Roy Taylor

  • Fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber.

    Kristan L. Corwin;Nathan R. Newbury;J M. Dudley;S. Coen

  • Self-similarity in ultrafast nonlinear optics

    John M. Dudley;Christophe Finot;Christophe Finot;David J. Richardson;Guy Millot

  • High aspect ratio nanochannel machining using single shot femtosecond Bessel beams

    M. K. Bhuyan;F. Courvoisier;P. A. Lacourt;M. Jacquot

  • Harnessing and control of optical rogue waves in supercontinuum generation

    John. M. Dudley;Goëry Genty;Benjamin J. Eggleton

  • Cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating analysis of broadband continuum generation in photonic crystal fiber: simulations and experiments.

    John M. Dudley;Xun Gu;Lin Xu;Mark W. Kimmel

  • Fiber supercontinuum sources (Invited)

    Goëry Genty;Stéphane Coen;John M. Dudley

  • Real-time full-field characterization of transient dissipative soliton dynamics in a mode-locked laser

    P. Ryczkowski;M. Närhi;C. Billet;J.-M. Merolla

  • Self-similar propagation of parabolic pulses in normal-dispersion fiber amplifiers

    V.I. Kruglov;A.C. Peacock;J.D. Harvey;J.M. Dudley

  • Machine learning and applications in ultrafast photonics

    Goëry Genty;Lauri Salmela;John M. Dudley;Daniel Brunner

  • Recent progress in investigating optical rogue waves

    Nail Akhmediev;John M Dudley;D R Solli;D R Solli;S Turitsyn

  • Fundamental noise limitations on supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber

    J.M. Dudley;K.L. Corwin;N.R. Newbury;B.R. Washburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Goëry Genty
Goëry Genty Tampere University
Christophe Finot
Christophe Finot University of Burgundy
Bertrand Kibler
Bertrand Kibler Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Guy Millot
Guy Millot University of Burgundy
Frédéric Dias
Frédéric Dias University College Dublin
Thibaut Sylvestre
Thibaut Sylvestre Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Miro Erkintalo
Miro Erkintalo University of Auckland
Nail Akhmediev
Nail Akhmediev Australian National University
Julien Fatome
Julien Fatome University of Burgundy
Liam P. Barry
Liam P. Barry Dublin City University

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