J. Nathan Kutz     Professor and Chair of Applied Mathematics


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Contact

Address:
University of Washington
Department of Applied Mathematics
Box 352420
Seattle, WA 98195-2420
USA
Phone: 206-685-3029
Fax: 206-685-1440
E-mail: kutz@amath.washington.edu
web: www.amath.washington.edu/~kutz
Office: Guggenheim 414B
Curriculum Vitae: postscript and pdf

 


Research

Numerical methods and scientific computing, dynamical systems, bifurcation theory, linear and nonlinear wave propagation, perturbation and asymptotic methods, nonlinear analysis, variational methods, soliton theory, nonlinear optics, mode-locked lasers, Bose-Einstein condensation.

 


Education

Ph.D. 1994
Northwestern University
Department of Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics
Advisor: William L. Kath
Dissertation: Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Optical Fibers using Phase-Sensitive Amplifiers (49 pages of two-column postscript)
B.S. 1990 University of Washington
Physics and Mathematics

 


Academic History

Professor (9/05-present) and Chair (7/07-present):
Department of Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor (9/01-8/05):
University of Washington , Seattle, WA
Assistant Professor (9/98-8/01):


Visiting Research Fellow (9/95-8/97):
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Visiting Fellow (9/95-8/97):
Mathematical Sciences Research Center and Division of Theoretical Physics
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Postdoctoral Fellow (9/94-8/95):
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
School of Mathematics , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Visiting Academic Positions

3/08-6/08:
Department of Mathematics
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
1/07-3/07:
Department of Physics
Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
3/06-5/06:
Department of Mathematics
University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
7/04-12/04:
Department of Physics
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
4/03-6/03:
Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University , New York City, NY
6/98-8/98:
Optique Nonlineaire Theorique
University Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
3/98-5/98:
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Rome, Italy
9/97-2/98:
Department of Electronic Engineering
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
7/96-8/96:
Department of Mathematics
Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 


Honors and Awards

2001-2006
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2001-2002 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: Career Enhancement Fellowship
March 2000 Department of Applied Mathematics Excellence in Teaching Award
1998-2000 3M Corporation New Faculty Award
1997-1999 Hughes Research Laboratories Research Award
1997-1998 NSF International Research Fellow Award
1997-1999 NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship
1995-1997 NSF Mathematical Sciences University-Industry Postdoctoral Fellowship
1991-1994 DOD-National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

 


Students

Graduate PhD Students

PhD 2004 Sarah Hewitt
Thesis: Dynamics and Stability of Periodic Spatial Patterns in the Optical Parametric Oscillator
PhD 2005 Edward Farnum
Thesis: Stability and Dynamics of Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Optical Materials
PhD 2008 Brandon Bale
Thesis: Modeling the stability and dynamics in mode-locked fiber lasers

Undergraduate Research Students

A98-S01
Brandon Bale (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow)
S99-S01 Derek Bentsen (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow)
S00-S01 Kristin Spaulding (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow)
Honors Thesis: Modelocking in an optical fiber ring lasers
A00-S02 Brandon Warner (ACMS)
W01-S02 Matthew Patterson (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow)
Honors Thesis: Coupled Multi-species Bose-Einstein Condensates in Generalized Periodic Potentials
A01-Su02 Jennifer O'Neil (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow)
Honors Thesis: Pulse Dynamics in Actively Modelocking Fiber Optic Lasers
W02-A02 Dutch Meyer (ACMS)
A00-S03 Karen Intrachat (ACMS and Mary Gates Fellow)
W03-S03 Noel Fitzgerald (ACMS/Chemistry and Mary Gates Fellow)
Honors Thesis: Laser-Induced Plasmas: Dynamics in Air
W03-S04 Leslie Butson (ACMS)
A03-S06 Joshua Proctor (Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and English and Mary Gates Fellow)
S04-Su05 Braxton Osting (Mathematics and Mary Gates Fellow)
Honors Thesis: Stability and dynamics of transverse field structures in the optical parametric oscillator near resonance detuning
S05-Su06 N. Hawk Berry (Physics and Mary Gates Fellow)
S04-S07 Kimberlee Shish (Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Mary Gates Fellow)
W06-S07 Joel Nishimura (Mathematics and Mary Gates Fellow)
Honors Thesis: Stability and interactions of transverse field structures in optical parametric oscillators
S07-S08 Jonathan Tu (Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Mathematics and Mary Gates Fellow)
S07- Hannah Hedeen (Electrical Engineering and Mary Gates Fellow)
S07- Colin McGrath (ACMS and Physics)
S07- Beth Carey (Civil Engineering)

 


Seminars and Colloquia

February 2008
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
January 2007
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
December 2006
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
December 2006
University of California, Merced, CA
October 2006
Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
September 2006
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
September 2006
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 2006
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
June 2006
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
March 2006
University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
February 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
February 2006
Boston University, Boston, MA
September 2005
Weierstrass-Institut fur Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, Berlin, Germany
September 2005
Max Planck Institut fur Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany
December 2004
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
September 2004
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
August 2004
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
February 2004
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
February 2004
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
January 2004
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
July 2003
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
July 2003
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
July 2003
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
April 2002
Columbia University, New York, NY
April 2001
nLight Photonics Corporation, Seattle, WA
March 2001
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
December 2000
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
December 2000
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
December 2000
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
September 2000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
September 2000
Brown University, Providence, RI
June 2000
Corning Incorporated, Opto-Electronics Division, Sommerville, NJ
February 2000
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
December 1999
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
March 1999
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
February 1999
Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
January 1999
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
November 1998
Applied Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
October 1998
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
August 1998
Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Dusseldorf, Germany
May 1998
Universita degli Studi di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Roma, Italy
April 1998
Pirelli, Division of Photonics Research, Milan, Italy
March 1998
Universita degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
March 1998
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy
January 1998
Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd., Holmdel, NJ
December 1997
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
November 1997
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
March 1997
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
February 1997
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
February 1997
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
February 1997
Harvey-Mudd College, Claremont, CA
February 1997
Texas A&M, College Station, TX
February 1997
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
February 1997
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
November 1996
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
October 1996
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
April 1996
Brown University, Providence, RI
February 1996
International Submarine and Lightwave Systems, Holmdel, NJ
November 1995
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
October 1995
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
October 1995
College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
April 1995
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN
October 1995
AT&T Bell Labs Mathematical Sciences Research Center, Murray Hill, NJ
July 1995
3M Computational Science Center, St. Paul, MN
October 1994
AT&T Bell Labs Division of Theoretical Physics, Murray Hill, NJ
September 1994
Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis, MN
April 1994
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

 


Book Chapters

  1. Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers via Nonlinear Mode-Coupling, Dissipative Solitons, Lecture Notes in Physics, N. N. Akhmediev and A. Ankiewicz Eds. 241-265 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005) [Kutz]

  2. Dynamics of dispersion-managed solitons in optical communications: a geometric interpretation, in New Trends in Optical Soliton Transmission Systems, A. Hasegawa Ed., 183-195 (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1998) [Kutz, Evangelides, & Gordon]

Featured Articles

  1. Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, 4, issue 8 (2005) http://www.vjultrafast.org/ultrafast/, featuring Passive Mode-Locking by use of Waveguide Arrays, Optics Letters 30 (2005) 2013-2015 (Proctor & Kutz)

  2. Mode-locking Technique Well Suited for Fiber Lasers, Photonics Spectra, (September 2005) 96-98, featuring Passive Mode-Locking by use of Waveguide Arrays, Optics Letters 30 (2005) 2013-2015 (Proctor & Kutz)

Refereed Journal Publications

  1. Spectral Filtering for Ultra-fast Mode-Locking in the Normal Dispersive Regime, Optics Letters 33 (2008) 941-943 (Bale, Kutz, Chong, Renninger & Wise)

  2. Analytic theory of self-similar mode-locking , Optics Letters 33 (2008) 911-913 (Bale, Kutz & Wise)

  3. Stability and interactions of transverse field structures in optical parametric oscillators near resonance detuning , Journal of Physics B 41 (2008) 065401 (Nishimura & Kutz)

  4. Theory of passive harmonic mode-locking using waveguide arrays, Optics Express 16 (2008) 636-650 (Kutz & Sandstede)

  5. Mode-locked X-wave lasers, Optics Express 15 (2007) 16022-16028 (Kutz, Conti & Trillo)

  6. Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates under the influence of periodic and harmonic potentials, Physical Review E 75 (2007) 036214 (Berry & Kutz)

  7. SpectrUW: a laboratory for the numerical exploration of spectra of linear operators, Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 74 (2007) 370-378 (Deconinck, Kiyak, Carter & Kutz)

  8. Averaged models for passive mode-locking using nonlinear mode-coupling, Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 74 (2007) 333-342 (Proctor & Kutz)

  9. Mode-locked Soliton Lasers, SIAM Review 48 (2006) 629-678 (Kutz)

  10. Computing spectra of linear operators using Hill's method, Journal of Computational Physics 219 (2006) 296-321 (Deconinck & Kutz)

  11. Theory of Q-switching in actively mode-locked lasers, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 23 (2006) 652-662 (Proctor & Kutz)

  12. Theory and simulation of dual-frequency mode-locked lasers, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 23 (2006) 257-264 (Farnum, Butson & Kutz)

  13. Dynamics of the Optical Parametric Oscillator Near Resonance Detuning , SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 4 (2005) 808-831 (Hewitt & Kutz)

  14. Nonlinear mode-coupling for passive mode-locking: application of waveguide arrays, dual-core fibers, and/or fiber arrays , Optics Express 13 (2005) 8933-8950 (Proctor & Kutz)

  15. Stability and dynamics of transverse field structures in the optical parametric oscillator near resonance signal detuning, Journal of Physics B 38 (2005) 3461-3475 (Osting, Hewitt & Kutz)

  16. Passive mode-locking by use of waveguide arrays, Optics Letters 30 (2005) 2013-2015 (Proctor & Kutz)

  17. Enhanced Supercontinuum Generation through Dispersion-Management, Optics Express 13 (2005) 3989-3998 (Kutz, Lynga & Eggleton)

  18. Bit-Error-Ratio Improvement With 2R Optical Regenerators, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 17 (2005) 908-910 (Rochette, Kutz, Blows, Moss, Mok & Eggleton)

  19. Exact nonstationary solutions to the mean-field equations of motion for two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials , Journal of Physics A 38 (2005) 1901-1916 (Bradley, Deconinck & Kutz)

  20. Variational dynamics of spatial solitons in quasi-phase-matched quadratic media, Journal of Optics B 6 (2004) 405-410 (Farnum & Kutz)

  21. Dynamics and Stability of a New Class of Periodic Solutions of the Optical Parametric Oscillator , Optics Communications 240 (2004) 423-436 (Hewitt, Intrachat & Kutz)

  22. The Evans function for nonlocal equations, Indiana Journal of Mathematics 53 (2004) 1095-1126 (Kapitula, Kutz & Sandstede)

  23. Singular instability of exact stationary solutions of the nonlocal Gross-Pitaevskii equation, Physical Letters A 319 (2003) 97-103 (Deconinck & Kutz)

  24. Theory and simulation of passive modelocking dynamics using a long period fiber grating , IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 39 (2003) 1572-1578 (Intrachat & Kutz)

  25. Dynamics of periodic multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates , Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 36 (2003) 5431-5447 [Deconinck, Kutz, Patterson, & Warner]
  26. Bose-Einstein condensates in a one-dimensional double square well: Analytical solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation , Physical Review A 66 (2002) 063607 [Mahmud, Kutz, & Reinhardt]
  27. Theory and Simulation of the Dynamics and Stability of Actively Modelocked Lasers, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 38 (2002) 1412-1419 [O'Neil, Kutz, & Sandstede]
  28. Dynamics and Stability of Bose-Einstein Condensates: the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation with Periodic Potential , J. Nonlinear Science 12 (2002) 169-205 [Deconinck, Frigyik & Kutz]
  29. Nonlinear dynamics of mode-locking optical fiber ring lasers, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19 (2002) 1045-1054 [Spaulding, Yong, Kim & Kutz]
  30. Stability of Pulses in the Master-Modelocking Equation, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19 (2002) 740-746 [Kapitula, Kutz & Sandstede]
  31. Stability of Attractive Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Periodic Potential, Phys. Rev. E 64 (2001) 056615 [Bronski, Carr, Carretero-Gonzalez, Deconinck, Kutz & Promislow]
  32. Stability of exact solutions of the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation with periodic potential in two dimensions , Phys. Lett. A 283 (2001) 177-184 [Deconinck, Frigyik & Kutz]
  33. Stability of Repulsive Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Periodic Potential , Phys. Rev. E 63 (2001) 036612 [Bronski, Carr, Deconinck, Kutz & Promislow]
  34. Stability of stationary states in the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation: Applications to the Bose-Einstein condensate , Phys. Rev. E 63 (2001) 066604 [Carr, Kutz & Reinhardt]
  35. Bose-Einstein condensates in standing waves: the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a periodic potential , Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 1402-1405 [Bronski, Carr, Deconinck & Kutz]
  36. Bifurcation and asymptotic stability in the large detuning limit of the optical parametric oscillator, Nonlinearity 13 (2000) 675-698 [Promislow & Kutz]
  37. Passive mode-locking in optical fiber lasers by nonlinear polarization rotation, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 36 (2000) 465-471 [Kim, Kutz & Muraki]
  38. Curvature dynamics and stability of topological solitons in the optical parametric oscillator, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16 (1999) 1936-1941 [Kutz, Erneux, Trillo & Haelterman]
  39. Nonsoliton pulse evolution in normally dispersive fibers, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16 (1999) 1856-1862 [Forest, Kutz & McLaughlin]
  40. Observation of the breakup of a pre-chirped N-soliton in an optical fiber, Optics Letters 24 (1999) 1191-1193 [Krylov, Leng, Bergman, Bronski & Kutz]
  41. Numerical simulation of the semiclassical limit of the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation, Phys. Lett. A 254 (1999) 325-336 [Bronski & Kutz]
  42. Dynamics and bifurcations of a planar map modelling dispersion managed breathers, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 59 (1999) 1288-1302 [Holmes & Kutz]
  43. Global existence and uniqueness for an optical fiber laser model, Nonlinearity 11 (1998) 1489-1504 [Mielke, Holmes & Kutz]
  44. Stabilized pulse spacing in soliton lasers due to gain depletion and recovery , IEEE J. Quant. Elec. 34 (1998) 1749-1757 [Kutz, Collings, Bergman & Knox]
  45. Mode Mixing and Power Diffusion in Multimode Optical Fibers, J. of Lightwave Tech. 16 (1998) 1195-1202 [Kutz, Cox & Smith]
  46. Noise induced amplitude and chirp jitter in dispersion-managed soliton communications, Opt. Lett. 23 (1998) 1022-1024 [Kutz & Wai]
  47. Dispersion-managed breathers with average normal dispersion, Opt. Lett. 23 (1998) 685-687 [Kutz & Evangelides]
  48. Gordon-Haus timing jitter reduction in dispersion-managed soliton communications, IEEE Pho. Tech. Lett. 10 (1998) 702-704 [Kutz & Wai]
  49. Ideal amplifier spacing for reduction of Gordon-Haus jitter in dispersion-managed soliton communications, Elec. Lett. 34 (1998) 322-323 [Kutz & Wai]
  50. Hamiltonian dynamics of dispersion managed breathers, J. of the Opt. Soc. Am. B, 15 (1998) 87-96 [Kutz, Holmes, Evangelides, & Gordon]
  51. Short cavity Erbium/Ytterbium fiber lasers modelocked with a saturable Bragg reflector, IEEE J. Selec. Top. Quant. Elec. 3, no. 4 (1997) 1065-1075 [Collings, Tsuda, Cundiff, Kutz, Koch, Knox & Bergman]
  52. Nonlinear pulse propagation in long-period fiber gratings: theory and experiment, IEEE J. Selec. Top. Quant. Elec. 3, no. 5 (1997) 1232-1245 [Kutz, Eggleton, Stark & Slusher]
  53. Modelocking pulse dynamics in a fiber laser with a saturable Bragg reflector, J. of the Opt. Soc. Am. B, 14 (1997) 2681-2690 [Kutz, Collings, Bergman, Tsuda, Cundiff, Knox, Holmes & Weinstein]
  54. Measurements of nonlinear phase shift during collinear soliton collisions Optics Communications, 141 (1997) 265-268. [Koehler, Kutz, Leng & Bergman]
  55. Asymptotic behavior of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with rapidly-varying, mean-zero dispersion , Physica D, 108 (1997) 315-329. [Bronski & Kutz]
  56. Guiding-center pulse dynamics in nonreturn-to-zero communications systems with mean-zero dispersion , J. of the Opt. Soc. of Am. B, 14 (1997) 903-911. [Bronski & Kutz]
  57. Analytic study of orthogonally polarized solitons interacting in highly birefringent optical fibers J. of the Optical Society of America B, 14 (1997) 636-642. [Kutz, Koehler, Leng & Bergman]
  58. Modulational stability of plane waves in nonreturn-to-zero communications systems with dispersion management , Optics Letters, 21 (1996) 937-939. [Bronski & Kutz]
  59. Enhanced Power-Transfer and Mode-Coupling in Spun Twin-Core Optical Fibers Optics Letters, 21 (1996) 863-865. [Kutz & Muraki]
  60. Stability of pulses in nonlinear optical fibers using phase-sensitive amplifiers SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 56 (1996) 611-626. [Kutz & Kath]
  61. Fiber Optic Modules for High Speed Interconnects LEOS Newsletter, 10 (1996) 17-20. [Bergman, Koehler, Kutz & Prucnal]
  62. Pulse propagation in nonlinear optical fiber lines that employ phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 11 (1994) 2112-2123. [Kutz, Hile, Kath, Kumar & Li]
  63. Phase Sensitive Amplifiers for Ultra-long Distance Propagation Optics & Photonics News, 4 (1993) 11. [Kath, Kumar, Kutz & Li]
  64. Long-distance pulse propagation in noninear optical fibers by using periodically spaced parametric amplifiers , Optics Letters 18 (1993) 802-804. [Kutz, Kath, Kumar & Li]
  65. Combating Dispersion with Parametric Amplifiers IEEE Photonics Technologies Letters, 5 (1993) 669-672. [Kumar, Li, Kath & Kutz]


Refereed Proceedings

  1. Long-distance pulse propagation in nonlinear optical fibers by using periodically spaced parametric amplifiers, Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference Proceedings 12 (1993) 289 [Kutz, Kath, Li & Kumar]
  2. Long-distance pulse propagation in nonlinear optical fibers using periodically spaced parametric amplifiers , Integrated Photonics Research Proceedings 10 (1993) 48 [Kutz, Kath, Li & Kumar]
  3. Dispersion compensation with phase-sensitive amplifiers, OSA Annual Meeting Technical Digest 16 (1993) 100 [Kutz, Kath, Li & Kumar]
  4. Suppression of dispersion in NRZ communication systems using dispersion management, CLEO Technical Digest 9 (1996) 404 [Kutz & Bronski]
  5. Ultrafast switching in highly birefringent fiber via soliton collision, CLEO Technical Digest 9 (1996) 130 [Kutz, Koehler, Leng & Bergman]
  6. Measurements of the nonlinear phase shift from orthogonally polarized soliton collisions, OSA 1996 Nonlinear Optics Topical Meeting, Paper NFB2 [Koehler, Leng, Kutz & Bergman]
  7. Dynamics of Passive Modelocking with Saturable Bragg Reflector (SBR) in Fiber Lasers, LEOS'96 Conference Proceedings 2 (1996) 28 [Kutz & Bergman]
  8. Low latency, ultrafast fiber loop mirror switch using orthogonally polarized signal and control solitons , OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics 13 (1997) Ultrafast Electronics and Optoelectronics [Koehler, Leng, Kutz & Bergman]
  9. Mode-locking pulse dynamics in fiber lasers , CLEO Technical Digest X (1997) [Kutz, Bergman, Tsuda, & Knox]
  10. Low-latency, ultrafast fiber loop mirror switch with 1.2-ps timing jitter tolerance, CLEO Technical Digest X (1997) [Koehler, Leng, Kutz & Bergman]
  11. Modelocking pulse dynamics in fiber lasers , Proceedings of Photonics West 98 (1998) 3283 [Kutz]
  12. Dispersion-managed solitons with average normal dispersion, Nonlinear Guided Waves & Their Applications 5 (1998) [Kutz & Evangelides]
  13. Harmonic modelocking dynamics in optical fiber lasers , SPIE Laser Optics 98 (1998) [Kutz]
  14. Amplitude, chirp, and timing jitter in dispersion-managed soliton communications, 1998 International Workshop on Optical Soliton Transmission Systems and Devices (1998) [Kutz & Wai]
  15. Multi-gigahertz femtosecond fiber lasers by passive mode locking, Photonics East 99 (1998) 3542 [Collings, Bergman, Kutz & Knox]
  16. Chirped pulse propagation and break-up in low-dispersion optical fibers, Aspen (1999) [Kutz, Krylov, Leng, Bergman & Bronski]
  17. Propagation and break-up of pre-chirped N-soliton pulses in anomalous optical fibers, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, ThD22, 322-324 (1999), Dijon, France [Kutz, Krylov, Leng, Bergman & Bronski]
  18. Curvature dynamics and fronts in the optical parametric oscillator, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, WD38, 168-170 (1999), Dijon, France [Kutz, Erneux, Trillo & Haelterman]
  19. Observation of a two-stage soliton breakup, Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, ThA5, 316-318 (2000), Kaua'i-Lihue, Hawaii [Krylov, Kutz, Sears & Bergman]
  20. Control of pulse-train uniformity with passive polarizers in mode-locked optical fiber lasers, Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, ThB25, 388-390 (2000), Kaua'i-Lihue, Hawaii [Kutz, Kim, Yong & Spaulding]
  21. Pulse-train uniformity in mode-locked optical fiber lasers, Proceedings of Photonics West 01 (2001) San Jose, CA [Kutz, Spaulding, Kim & Yong]
  22. Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in standing light waves , Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, MC17, 88-90 (2001), Clearwater, FL [Kutz, Deconinck, Carr & Bronski]
  23. Nonlinear dynamics and pulse train uniformity of mode-locking optical fiber ring lasers, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, MC58, 208-210 (2001), Clearwater, FL [Kutz, Spaulding, Yong & Kim]
  24. Pulse train dynamics in actively modelocked lasers, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, NLTuD24 (2002), Stresa, Italy [Kutz & O'Neil]
  25. Nonlocal mean-field theory in N-body quantum mechanics for Bose-Einstein condensation, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, NLTuD40 (2002), Stresa, Italy [Kutz & Deconinck]
  26. Modelocking in a fiber laser with a long period fiber grating, Proceedings of Photonics West 2003, 4974, 17-25 (2003) San Jose, CA [Kutz & Intrachat]
  27. Pulse train dynamics in actively mode-locked lasers , Proceedings of Photonics West 2003, 4986, 563-574 (2003) San Jose, CA [Kutz & O'Neil]
  28. Optical packet switching through multiple nodes in the data vortex architecture, LEOS 2003, 1, 53-54 (2003) Tucson, AZ [Lu, Small, Liboiron-Ladoucear, Kutz & Bergman]
  29. Characterizing and simulating the performance of the physical layer of data vortex switching nodes, LEOS 2003, 1, 59-60 (2003) Tucson, AZ [Small, Kutz, Lu & Bergman]
  30. Spatial solitons in quasi-phase-matched quadratic media, Proceedings of Photonics West 2004, 5337, 81-88 (2004) [Farnum & Kutz]
  31. Propagation of spatially periodic waves in the optical parametric oscillator, Proceedings of Photonics West 2004, 5337, 89-96 (2004) [Hewitt & Kutz]
  32. Modeling, simulating, and characterizing performance in optical switching networks , Proceedings of Photonics West 2004, 5349, 228-235 (2004) [Kutz, Small, Lu & Bergman]
  33. Simulations and modeling of passive modeling using a long period fiber grating, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, MC43 (2004), Toronto, Canada [Kutz & Intrachat]
  34. Spatial solitons in quasi-phase-matched quadratic media: an asymptotic approach, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, TuC18 (2004), Toronto [Farnum & Kutz]
  35. Bit Error Ratio Improvement by Two Transfer Function Regenerators, CLEO Technical Digest, JThE63 (2005) [Rochette, Blows, Moss, Mok, Eggleton & Kutz].
  36. Theory of Multi-Frequency Mode-Locked Lasers, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, ThB3 (2005), Dresden, Germany [Farnum & Kutz]
  37. Modeling Q-Switching in Actively Mode-Locked Lasers, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, ThB23 (2005), Dresden, Germany [Proctor & Kutz]
  38. Waveguide Arrays for Passive Temporal Mode-Locking, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, TuC6 (2005), Dresden, Germany [Kutz & Proctor]
  39. Dispersion-Management for Enhancing Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fiber, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, TuD4 (2005), Dresden, Germany [Kutz, Lynga & Eggleton]
  40. The Dynamics of the Optical Parametric Oscillator Near Resonance Detuning, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, WD5 (2005), Dresden, Germany [Osting, Hewitt & Kutz]
  41. Dynamics of Passive Harmonic Mode-Locking, Nonlinear Photonics, NThB6 (2007), Quebec City, Canada ( Kutz & Sandstede)
  42. Waveguide Arrays for Mode-Locking X-Wave Lasers, Nonlinear Photonics, NWA5 (2007), Quebec City, Canada (Kutz, Conti & Trillo)
  43. Stability of Transverse Field Structures in Two-Dimensional Optical Parametric Oscillators, Nonlinear Photonics, JWA3 (2007), Quebec City, Canada (Nishimura & Kutz)
  44. Spectral Filtering for Ultra-Fast Mode-Locking in the Normal Dispersive Regime, Nonlinear Photonics, JWA16 (2007), Quebec City, Canada (Bale & Kutz)
  45. Multi-Frequency Mode-Locking with Waveguide Arrays, Nonlinear Photonics, JWA17} (2007), Quebec City, Canada (Bale, Farnum & Kutz)


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