William James Firth - Publications

Affiliations: 
1982-1985 Physics Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 
 1985-2011 Physics University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Area:
optical physics
Website:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Firth

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2019 Martin R, Scroggie AJ, Oppo G, Firth WJ. Stabilization, Selection, and Tracking of Unstable Patterns by Fourier Space Techniques. Physical Review Letters. 77: 4007-4010. PMID 10062364 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.77.4007  0.356
2017 Gustave F, Radwell N, McIntyre C, Toomey JP, Kane DM, Barland S, Firth WJ, Oppo GL, Ackemann T. Observation of Mode-Locked Spatial Laser Solitons. Physical Review Letters. 118: 044102. PMID 28186807 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.044102  0.365
2017 Firth WJ, Kresic I, Labeyrie G, Camara A, Ackemann T. Thick-medium model of transverse pattern formation in optically excited cold two-level atoms with a feedback mirror Physical Review A. 96: 53806. DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.96.053806  0.451
2015 Camara A, Kaiser R, Labeyrie G, Firth WJ, Oppo GL, Robb GRM, Arnold AS, Ackemann T. Optical pattern formation with a two-level nonlinearity Physical Review a - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 92. DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.92.013820  0.408
2014 Tesio E, Robb GRM, Oppo G-, Gomes PM, Ackemann T, Labeyrie G, Kaiser R, Firth WJ. Self-organization in cold atomic gases: a synchronization perspective Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 372: 20140002-20140002. PMID 25246676 DOI: 10.1098/Rsta.2014.0002  0.331
2014 Labeyrie G, Tesio E, Gomes PM, Oppo GL, Firth WJ, Robb GRM, Arnold AS, Kaiser R, Ackemann T. Optomechanical self-structuring in a cold atomic gas Nature Photonics. 8: 321-325. DOI: 10.1038/Nphoton.2014.52  0.39
2013 Tesio E, Robb G, Ackemann T, Firth W, Oppo G. Dissipative solitons in the coupled dynamics of light and cold atoms Optics Express. 21: 26144-26149. PMID 24216838 DOI: 10.1364/Oe.21.026144  0.344
2013 Ackemann T, Labeyrie G, Tesio E, Gomes PM, Oppo G, Firth WJ, Robb GR, Arnold AS, Kaiser R. Hexagonal self-structuring due to optomechanical nonlinearities in cold atomic gases Nonlinear Optics. DOI: 10.1364/Nlo.2013.Nw3B.4  0.357
2012 Hagan DJ, Mackenzie HA, Attar HA, Firth WJ. Carrier diffusion measurements in InSb by the angular dependence of degenerate four-wave mixing. Optics Letters. 10: 187-9. PMID 19724389 DOI: 10.1364/Ol.10.000187  0.444
2012 Tesio E, Robb G, Ackemann T, Firth W, Oppo G. Spontaneous optomechanical pattern formation in cold atoms Physical Review A. 86: 31801. DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.86.031801  0.349
2012 Barland S, Giudici M, Tissoni G, Tredicce JR, Brambilla M, Lugiato L, Prati F, Barbay S, Kuszelewicz R, Ackemann T, Firth WJ, Oppo G-. Solitons in semiconductor microcavities Nature Photonics. 6: 204-204. DOI: 10.1038/Nphoton.2012.50  0.387
2011 Paulau PV, Gomila D, Colet P, Malomed BA, Firth WJ. From one- to two-dimensional solitons in the Ginzburg-Landau model of lasers with frequency-selective feedback. Physical Review E. 84: 36213. PMID 22060481 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.84.036213  0.465
2010 Paulau PV, Gomila D, Colet P, Loiko NA, Rosanov N, Ackemann T, Firth WJ. Vortex solitons in lasers with feedback. Optics Express. 18: 8859-8866. PMID 20588731 DOI: 10.1364/Oe.18.008859  0.437
2010 Radwell N, McIntyre C, Scroggie AJ, Oppo GL, Firth WJ, Ackemann T. Erratum to: Switching spatial dissipative solitons in a VCSEL with frequency selective feedback European Physical Journal D. 59: 149-149. DOI: 10.1140/Epjd/E2010-00169-5  0.331
2010 Radwell N, Mcintyre C, Scroggie AJ, Oppo G, Firth WJ, Ackemann T. Switching spatial dissipative solitons in a VCSEL with frequency selective feedback European Physical Journal D. 59: 121-131. DOI: 10.1140/Epjd/E2010-00124-6  0.379
2010 Firth WJ, Paulau PV. Soliton lasers stabilized by coupling to a resonant linear system European Physical Journal D. 59: 13-21. DOI: 10.1140/Epjd/E2010-00116-6  0.413
2010 Ackemann T, Radwell N, McIntyre C, Firth WJ, Oppo G-. Self-pulsing dynamics in a cavity soliton laser Proceedings of Spie. 7720: 772007. DOI: 10.1117/12.854039  0.441
2010 Firth W. Temporal cavity solitons: Buffering optical data Nature Photonics. 4: 415-417. DOI: 10.1038/Nphoton.2010.142  0.414
2009 Paulau PV, Gomila D, Colet P, Matías MA, Loiko NA, Firth WJ. Drifting instabilities of cavity solitons in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with frequency-selective feedback Physical Review A. 80: 23808. DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.80.023808  0.443
2009 Scroggie A, Firth WJ, Oppo GL. Cavity-soliton laser with frequency-selective feedback Physical Review A. 80: 13829. DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.80.013829  0.429
2009 Pedaci F, Barland S, Caboche E, Genevet P, Giudici M, Tredicce JR, Ackemann T, Scroggie AJ, Firth WJ, Oppo G-, Tissoni G, Jäger R. All-optical delay line using semiconductor cavity solitons (vol 92, 011101, 2008) Applied Physics Letters. 94: 269902. DOI: 10.1063/1.3168395  0.319
2009 Ackemann T, Firth W, Oppo G. Fundamentals and Applications of Spatial Dissipative Solitons in Photonic Devices Advances in Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 57: 323-421. DOI: 10.1016/S1049-250X(09)57006-1  0.447
2008 Paulau PV, Gomila D, Ackemann T, Loiko NA, Firth WJ. Self-localized structures in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with external feedback. Physical Review E. 78: 16212-16212. PMID 18764040 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.78.016212  0.449
2008 Tanguy Y, Ackemann T, Firth WJ, Jäger R. Realization of a Semiconductor-Based Cavity Soliton Laser Physical Review Letters. 100: 13907-13907. PMID 18232769 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.100.013907  0.443
2008 Firth WJ. Spatio-Temporal Complexity in Broad-Area Photonics Frontiers in Optics. DOI: 10.1364/Fio.2008.Fwc1  0.314
2008 Robb GRM, Burgess RTL, Firth WJ. Enhancement of collective atomic recoil lasing due to pump phase modulation Physical Review A. 78: 41804. DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.78.041804  0.32
2007 Robb GRM, Firth WJ. Collective atomic recoil lasing with a partially coherent pump. Physical Review Letters. 99: 253601-253604. PMID 18233519 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.99.253601  0.322
2007 Pesch M, Lange W, Gomila D, Ackemann T, Firth WJ, Oppo G. Two-Dimensional Front Dynamics and Spatial Solitons in a Nonlinear Optical System Physical Review Letters. 99: 153902-153902. PMID 17995167 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.99.153902  0.415
2007 Firth WJ, Columbo L, Maggipinto T. On homoclinic snaking in optical systems. Chaos. 17: 37115. PMID 17903022 DOI: 10.1063/1.2768157  0.408
2007 Paulau PV, Scroggie AJ, Naumenko A, Ackemann T, Loiko NA, Firth WJ. Localized traveling waves in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with frequency-selective optical feedback. Physical Review E. 75: 56208. PMID 17677149 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.75.056208  0.442
2007 Gomila D, Scroggie AJ, Firth WJ. Bifurcation structure of dissipative solitons Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 227: 70-77. DOI: 10.1016/J.Physd.2006.12.008  0.341
2006 Ackemann T, Tanguy Y, Scroggie A, Yao A, Firth WJ, Oppo G-, Paulau P, Naumenko AV, Loiko NA, Jaeger R. Realization of a Cavity-soliton Laser Based on Broad-area Vertical-cavity Devices with Frequency-selective Feedback Piers Online. 2: 720-722. DOI: 10.2529/Piers060903061559  0.665
2006 Firth WJ, Yao AM. Master equation for misaligned cavities Journal of Modern Optics. 53: 2005-2010. DOI: 10.1080/09500340600787424  0.659
2005 Firth WJ, Yao AM. Giant excess noise and transient gain in misaligned laser cavities. Physical Review Letters. 95: 073903. PMID 16196783 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.95.073903  0.659
2005 Firth WJ, Oppo GL, Ackemann T. Cavity Solitons: Creation, Control, Complexes Frontiers in Optics. DOI: 10.1364/Fio.2005.Ftua1  0.408
2005 Scroggie AJ, Gomila D, Firth WJ, Oppo G. Spontaneous and induced motion of optical patterns Applied Physics B. 81: 963-968. DOI: 10.1007/S00340-005-2019-7  0.343
2003 Geddes JB, Firth WJ, Black K. Pulse dynamics in an actively mode-locked laser Siam Journal On Applied Dynamical Systems. 2: 647-671. DOI: 10.1137/S1111111102416599  0.38
2002 Skryabin DV, McSloy JM, Firth WJ. Stability of spiralling solitary waves in Hamiltonian systems. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 66: 055602. PMID 12513549 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.66.055602  0.365
2002 McSloy JM, Firth WJ, Harkness GK, Oppo G-. Computationally determined existence and stability of transverse structures. II. Multipeaked cavity solitons. Physical Review E. 66: 46606-46614. PMID 12443348 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.66.046606  0.395
2002 Harkness GK, Firth WJ, Oppo GL, McSloy JM. Computationally determined existence and stability of transverse structures. I. Periodic optical patterns. Physical Review E. 66: 46605. PMID 12443347 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.66.046605  0.376
2002 Scroggie AJ, McSloy JM, Firth WJ. Self-propelled cavity solitons in semiconductor microcavities. Physical Review E. 66: 36607. PMID 12366280 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.66.036607  0.404
2002 Vladimirov AG, McSloy JM, Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Two-dimensional clusters of solitary structures in driven optical cavities. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 65: 046606. PMID 12006046 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.65.046606  0.334
2002 Firth WJ, Weiss CO. Cavity and Feedback Solitons Optics & Photonics News. 13: 54-58. DOI: 10.1364/Opn.13.2.000054  0.352
2002 Firth WJ, Harkness GK, Lord A, McSloy JM, Gomila D, Colet P. Dynamical properties of two-dimensional Kerr cavity solitons Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics. 19: 747-752. DOI: 10.1364/Josab.19.000747  0.396
2002 Rosanov NN, Vladimirov AG, Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Internal oscillations of solitons in two-dimensional NLS equation with nonlocal nonlinearity Physics Letters A. 293: 45-49. DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(01)00835-0  0.364
2001 Skryabin DV, Yulin A, Michaelis D, Firth WJ, Oppo GL, Peschel U, Lederer F. Perturbation theory for domain walls in the parametric Ginzburg-Landau equation. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 64: 056618. PMID 11736127 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.64.056618  0.331
2001 Michaelis D, Peschel U, Lederer F, Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Universal criterion and amplitude equation for a nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 63: 066602. PMID 11415237 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.63.066602  0.355
2001 Oppo G, Scroggie AJ, Firth WJ. Characterization, dynamics and stabilization of diffractive domain walls and dark ring cavity solitons in parametric oscillators Physical Review E. 63: 66209-66225. PMID 11415208 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.63.066209  0.392
2001 Maggipinto T, Brambilla M, Harkness GK, Firth WJ. Erratum: Cavity solitons in semiconductor microresonators: Existence, stability, and dynamical properties [Phys. Rev. E 62 , 8726 (2000)] Physical Review E. 63: 49902. DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.63.049902  0.335
1999 Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Interaction of cavity solitons in degenerate optical parametric oscillators Optics Letters. 24: 1056-1058. PMID 18073939 DOI: 10.1364/Ol.24.001056  0.409
1999 Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Modulational instability of bright solitary waves in incoherently coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Physical Review E. 60: 1019-1029. PMID 11969848 DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.60.1019  0.4
1999 Ostrovskaya EA, Kivshar YS, Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Stability of Multihump Optical Solitons Physical Review Letters. 83: 296-299. DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.83.296  0.38
1999 Papoff F, D'Alessandro G, Firth WJ, Oppo G-. Diffraction-induced polarization effects in optical pattern formation Physical Review Letters. 82: 2087-2090. DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.82.2087  0.385
1999 Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Erratum: Modulational instability of bright solitary waves in incoherently coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations [Phys. Rev. E 60, 1019 (1999)] Physical Review E. 60: 6242-6242. DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.60.6242.2  0.362
1999 Oppo G, Scroggie AJ, Firth WJ. From domain walls to localized structures in degenerate optical parametric oscillators Journal of Optics B-Quantum and Semiclassical Optics. 1: 133-138. DOI: 10.1088/1464-4266/1/1/024  0.327
1998 Dunlop A, Firth W, Wright E. Pulse shapes and stability in Kerr and Active Mode-Locking (KAML). Optics Express. 2: 204-211. PMID 19377603 DOI: 10.1364/Oe.2.000204  0.362
1998 Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Modulational Instability of Solitary Waves in Nondegenerate Three-Wave Mixing: The Role of Phase Symmetries Physical Review Letters. 81: 3379-3382. DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.81.3379  0.36
1998 Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Instabilities of higher-order parametric solitons: Filamentation versus coalescence Physical Review E. 58. DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.58.R1252  0.329
1998 Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Dynamics of self-trapped beams with phase dislocation in saturable Kerr and quadratic nonlinear media Physical Review E. 58: 3916-3930. DOI: 10.1103/Physreve.58.3916  0.394
1998 Skryabin DV, Firth WJ. Generation and stability of optical bullets in quadratic nonlinear media Optics Communications. 148: 79-84. DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00660-3  0.431
1998 Dunlop A, Wright E, Firth W. Spatial soliton laser Optics Communications. 147: 393-401. DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00579-8  0.43
1997 Martin R, Oppo G, Harkness G, Scroggie A, Firth W. Controlling pattern formation and spatio-temporal disorder in nonlinear optics Optics Express. 1: 39-44. PMID 19373377 DOI: 10.1364/Oe.1.000039  0.345
1997 Firth WJ, Skryabin DV. Optical Solitons Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum Physical Review Letters. 79: 2450-2453. DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.79.2450  0.377
1996 Dunlop AM, Firth WJ, Heatley DR, Wright EM. Generalized mean-field or master equation for nonlinear cavities with transverse effects. Optics Letters. 21: 770-2. PMID 19876153 DOI: 10.1364/OL.21.000770  0.346
1996 Firth WJ, Scroggie AJ. Optical bullet holes: Robust controllable localized states of a nonlinear cavity. Physical Review Letters. 76: 1623-1626. PMID 10060476 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.76.1623  0.383
1996 Firth WJ, Lord A, Scroggie AJ. Optical bullet holes Physica Scripta. 1996: 12-16. DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/1996/T67/002  0.402
1994 Firth WJ, Scroggie AJ. Spontaneous pattern formation in an absorptive system Epl. 26: 521-526. DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/26/7/008  0.327
1994 Scroggie AJ, Firth WJ, McDonald GS, Tlidi M, Lefever R, Lugiato LA. Pattern formation in a passive Kerr cavity Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. 4: 1323-1354. DOI: 10.1016/0960-0779(94)90084-1  0.386
1994 Geddes JB, Lega J, Moloney JV, Indik RA, Wright EM, Firth WJ. Pattern selection in passive and active nonlinear optical systems Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. 4: 1261-1274. DOI: 10.1016/0960-0779(94)90081-7  0.354
1993 Heatley DR, Firth WJ, Ironside CN. Ultrashort-pulse generation using two-photon gain Optics Letters. 18: 628-630. PMID 19802222 DOI: 10.1364/Ol.18.000628  0.367
1993 Papoff F, D’Alessandro G, Oppo G-, Firth WJ. Local and global effects of boundaries on optical-pattern formation in Kerr media. Physical Review A. 48: 634-641. PMID 9909638 DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.48.634  0.401
1992 D'Alessandro G, Firth W. Hexagonal spatial patterns for a Kerr slice with a feedback mirror. Physical Review A. 46: 537-548. PMID 9907893 DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.46.537  0.436
1992 McDonald GS, Syed KS, Firth WJ. Optical vortices in beam propagation through a self-defocussing medium Optics Communications. 94: 469-476. DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(92)90589-J  0.397
1991 D'Alessandro G, Firth W. Spontaneous hexagon formation in a nonlinear optical medium with feedback mirror. Physical Review Letters. 66: 2597-2600. PMID 10043563 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.66.2597  0.435
1991 Oppo G, D’Alessandro G, Firth WJ. Spatiotemporal instabilities of lasers in models reduced via center manifold techniques Physical Review A. 44: 4712-4720. PMID 9906514 DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.44.4712  0.366
1990 McDonald GS, Firth WJ. Spatial solitary-wave optical memory Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics. 7: 1328-1335. DOI: 10.1364/Josab.7.001328  0.398
1990 Abraham NB, Firth WJ. Overview of transverse effects in nonlinear-optical systems Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics. 7: 951-962. DOI: 10.1364/Josab.7.000951  0.445
1990 McDonald GS, Firth WJ. All-optical switching in a nonlinear resonator Journal of Modern Optics. 37: 613-626. DOI: 10.1080/09500349014550701  0.415
1990 Firth WJ. Spatial instabilities in a Kerr medium with single feedback mirror Journal of Modern Optics. 37: 151-153. DOI: 10.1080/09500349014550211  0.376
1988 Firth WJ, Paré C. Transverse modulational instabilities for counterpropagating beams in Kerr media. Optics Letters. 13: 1096-1098. PMID 19746136 DOI: 10.1364/Ol.13.001096  0.346
1987 Firth WJ, Galbraith I. Surface effects in optically bistable and transphasor devices Journal of Modern Optics. 34: 137-150. DOI: 10.1080/09500348714550201  0.332
1987 Firth WJ. Optically bistable arrays and chaotic dynamics Physics Letters A. 125: 375-379. DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(87)90164-2  0.376
1987 Richardson H, Abraham E, Firth WJ. Modelling of cross talk in 2-D bistable arrays with carrier diffusion Optics Communications. 63: 199-204. DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(87)90157-X  0.317
1986 Al-Attar HA, MacKenzie HA, Firth WJ. Critical slowing-down phenomena in an InSb optically bistable etalon Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics. 3: 1157-1163. DOI: 10.1364/Josab.3.001157  0.412
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