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Italy
2025

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2009 - OSA Fellows For extensive and significant contributions to the field of nonlinear photonic devices and soliton communications.

Overview

Stefan Wabnitz is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy and Engineering, with notable focus areas including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics as well as Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work covers various topics in photonics and laser technologies. Key research themes include:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation

Their recent publications include:

  • "Statistical mechanics of beam self-cleaning in GRIN multimode optical fibers" (2022) in Optics Express
  • "Advances in femtosecond laser direct writing of fiber Bragg gratings in multicore fibers: technology, sensor and laser applications" (2022) in Opto-Electronic Advances
  • "Roadmap on multimode photonics" (2022) in Journal of Optics
  • "Efficient Kerr soliton comb generation in micro-resonator with interferometric back-coupling" (2022) in Nature Communications
  • "The bright prospects of optical solitons after 50 years" (2023) in Nature Photonics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stefan Wabnitz include:

  • Fabio Mangini
  • Mario Ferraro
  • Mario Zitelli
  • Vincent Couderc
  • Alessandro Tonello

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optics Letters
  • Optics Express
  • Photonics Research

Stefan Wabnitz received the OSA Fellows award in 2009 for contributions in the field of nonlinear photonic devices and soliton communications.

Best Publications

  • Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

    Alessia Pasquazi;Alessia Pasquazi;Marco Peccianti;Marco Peccianti;Luca Razzari;David J. Moss;David J. Moss

  • Self-induced transparency solitons in nonlinear refractive periodic media

    A.B. Aceves;S. Wabnitz

  • Spatial beam self-cleaning in multimode fibres

    K. Krupa;K. Krupa;A. Tonello;B. M. Shalaby;B. M. Shalaby;M. Fabert

  • Solutions of the Vector Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations: Evidence for Deterministic Rogue Waves

    Fabio Baronio;Antonio Degasperis;Matteo Conforti;Stefan Wabnitz

  • Dissipative modulation instability in a nonlinear dispersive ring cavity

    Marc Haelterman;Stefano Trillo;Stefan Wabnitz

  • Vector Rogue Waves and Baseband Modulation Instability in the Defocusing Regime

    Fabio Baronio;Matteo Conforti;Antonio Degasperis;Sara Lombardo

  • Second-harmonic generation in silicon waveguides strained by silicon nitride

    M. Cazzanelli;F. Bianco;E. Borga;G. Pucker

  • Soliton switching in fiber nonlinear directional couplers.

    S. Trillo;S. Wabnitz;E. M. Wright;G. I. Stegeman

  • Discrete self-trapping, soliton interactions, and beam steering in nonlinear waveguide arrays.

    A. B Aceves;C. De Angelis;T. Peschel;R. Muschall

  • Roadmap on optical rogue waves and extreme events

    Nail Akhmediev;Bertrand Kibler;Fabio Baronio;Milivoj Belic

  • Observation of Geometric Parametric Instability Induced by the Periodic Spatial Self-Imaging of Multimode Waves

    Katarzyna Krupa;Alessandro Tonello;Alain Barthélémy;Vincent Couderc

  • Modulational polarization instability of light in a nonlinear birefringent dispersive medium.

    Stefan Wabnitz

  • Ultrabroadband dispersive radiation by spatiotemporal oscillation of multimode waves

    Logan G. Wright;Stefan W. Wabnitz;Demetrios N. Christodoulides;Frank W. Wise

  • Experimental observation of polarization instability in a birefringent optical fiber

    S. Trillo;S. Wabnitz;R. H. Stolen;Gaetano Assanto

  • Suppression of interactions in a phase-locked soliton optical memory.

    Stefan Wabnitz

  • Optical solitary waves induced by cross-phase modulation.

    S. Trillo;S. Wabnitz;E. M. Wright;G. I. Stegeman

  • Beneficial impact of wave-breaking for coherent continuum formation in normally dispersive nonlinear fibers

    Christophe Finot;Bertrand Kibler;Lionel Provost;Stefan Wabnitz

  • Extended nonlinear Schrödinger equation with higher-order odd and even terms and its rogue wave solutions.

    Adrian Ankiewicz;Yan Wang;Stefan Wabnitz;Nail Akhmediev

  • Stability analysis of nonlinear coherent coupling

    B. Daino;G. Gregori;S. Wabnitz

  • Dynamics of the nonlinear modulational instability in optical fibers.

    S. Trillo;Stefan Wabnitz

  • Pulse solutions of the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in the case of normal dispersion

    J. M. Soto-Crespo;N. N. Akhmediev;V. V. Afanasjev;S. Wabnitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy Millot
Guy Millot University of Burgundy
Stefano Trillo
Stefano Trillo University of Ferrara
Alain Barthélémy
Alain Barthélémy University of Limoges
Julien Fatome
Julien Fatome University of Burgundy
Marc Haelterman
Marc Haelterman Université Libre de Bruxelles
Christophe Finot
Christophe Finot University of Burgundy
George I. Stegeman
George I. Stegeman University of Central Florida
Miro Erkintalo
Miro Erkintalo University of Auckland
Yuji Kodama
Yuji Kodama The Ohio State University
Bertrand Kibler
Bertrand Kibler Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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