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Auro Perego
@nonlinearlight.bsky.social
Associate Professor & RAEng Research Fellow at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies

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Onde Solitarie (NEW!)
Unstable Nature
Natura Instabile
OFC: Trends in Sources and Applications (Ed.)
Pinned
I am happy to announce that my new book "Onde Solitarie" popularising the fascinating physics of the ubiquitous solitary waves (solitons) - with philosophical and poetry excursions too - has been published today in 🇮🇹 language by Castelvecchi Editore

www.castelvecchieditore.com/prodotto/ond...
Onde solitarie. Una riconciliazione fisica degli opposti - Castelvecchi Editore
Auro Michele Perego Onde solitarie. Una riconciliazione fisica degli opposti Prefazione di Giuseppe
www.castelvecchieditore.com
We are hiring a Photonics Engineer to work at a KTP project between @astonphotonics.bsky.social and Xtera on sensing to monitor submarine telecom networks!

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jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at Aston University: Photonics Engineer - KTP Associate
This KTP aims to develop novel monitoring technology for sub-sea telecommunications networks using photonic technologies to maintain cable integrity and detect potential damage or intrusion resulting from accidental or hostile activities, caused by...
jobs.aston.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Un breve assaggio del mio libro "Natura Instabile" 🐙

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ3g...
Natura Instabile. Mini Introduzione
YouTube video by auro michele perego
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October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I am hiring a postdoc to work for 3 years in my team @astonphotonics.bsky.social on theory and applications of optical solitons!

More infos here 👇👇👇

jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at Aston University: Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work in the field of the Nonlinear Fourier Transform (NFT) and soliton theory and its applications in optical signal processing at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies...
jobs.aston.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I am recruiting a postdoc to work experimentally in my group @astonphotonics.bsky.social on electro-optic frequency combs for microscopy applications!

If you are interested please write me!

You find more details here 👇👇👇

jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at Aston University: Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are hiring a postdoctoral research associate at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AIPT), that will join the group of Dr. Auro Perego. You will perform experimental and numerical simulat...
jobs.aston.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A new paper from my group in Physical Review Research

"Optical neuromorphic computing based on chaotic frequency combs in nonlinear microresonators"

Work by Negar Shaabani in collaboration with Egor Manuylovich and Morteza Kamalian.

You find it here 🎉🎇🧠💻🌈

journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
Optical neuromorphic computing based on chaotic frequency combs in nonlinear microresonators
An optical reservoir computer architecture is presented that leverages optical frequency comb formation from modulation instability inside a Kerr microresonator. The proposed solution can enable GHz s...
journals.aps.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Auro Perego
Those were impressive days, very engaging, exciting and inspiring
September 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Together with @mariachernysheva.bsky.social we have organised the workshop "Frontiers and innovations in nonlinear photonics"!

Looking forward to meeting many great scientists from academia and industry in Berlin and to enjoy talks and discussions!

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www.ufolaser-lab.com/events
Events | Ultrafast Fibre Lase
www.ufolaser-lab.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A new paper "Fast and accurate modeling of Kerr-Brillouin combs in Fabry-Perot resonators" published in @PhysRevA with collaborators @arnomussot.bsky.social Matteo Conforti and Thomas Bunel in Lille!

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journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
Fast and accurate modeling of Kerr-Brillouin combs in Fabry-Perot resonators
We introduce a new mean-field equation for modeling Fabry-Perot resonators filled with a dispersive medium exhibiting both Brillouin and Kerr nonlinearities, e.g., an optical fiber. This model is deri...
journals.aps.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Delighted to see our @royalsociety.org International Collaboration Award research project "Fibre Based Electro Optic Dual Comb Microscopy", with Eiji Hase at Tokushima University, highlighted on the Trustees' Report of The Royal Society.

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September 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
New paper published in Phys Rev A on GTF MI and comb generation in chi2 resonators!
Work by my student Minji Shi
in collaboration with Nicolas Englebert, Francois Leo
and Dmitry Skryabin

journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
Modulation instability and frequency-comb generation in hybrid quadratic-cubic resonators with spectral filtering
We present an analytical and numerical investigation into the phenomenon of filter-induced modulation instability in passive hybrid optical resonators exhibiting quadratic and cubic nonlinearity. We s...
journals.aps.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Our group has contributed to several works presented this week at CLEO Europe conference in Munich on frequency combs in resonators and pulses in lasers...

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June 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Very excited to talk today at @astonphotonics.bsky.social PGR voice students event about fellowship applications!
June 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Happy to see a new paper "Brillouin-induced Kerr frequency comb in normal dispersion fiber Fabry Perot resonators" published in Nature Communications as the result of a large collaboration with @arnomussot.bsky.social and other groups too!

You can read it here 👇👇👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brillouin-induced Kerr frequency comb in normal dispersion fiber Fabry Perot resonators - Nature Communications
Optical frequency combs are key tools in spectroscopy and telecom. Here, authors report a stable and broadband comb (>10 THz) from a high-Q fiber Fabry-Perot resonator via Kerr-Brillouin passive mo...
www.nature.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Unstable Nature is finally out today in a light paperback edition!

You find it also here 👇📕✒️

www.routledge.com/Unstable-Nat...
Unstable Nature: Order, Entropy, Becoming
Unstable Nature is a popular science book offering a journey through the concept of instability in modern science with a focus on physics. Conceived for the curious reader wishing to go deeper in the ...
www.routledge.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Next week I will be in London at the IOP workshop "Emerging Platforms for Optical Frequency Combs and Dissipative Solitons".

I will talk about how to do optical reservoir computing using random frequency combs💻🧠 🌈

www.iop.org/events/emerg...
Home - Emerging Platforms for Optical Frequency Combs and Dissipative Solitons - Institute of Physics
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April 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I am so delighted to see that Unstable Nature is about to be published in paperback on 6th May. It is already available to preorder (at a very affordable price) and will be delivered free worldwide btw✒️📕📖

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www.routledge.com/Unstable-Nat...
Unstable Nature: Order, Entropy, Becoming
Unstable Nature is a popular science book offering a journey through the concept of instability in modern science with a focus on physics. Conceived for the curious reader wishing to go deeper in the ...
www.routledge.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Il mio nuovo libro, Onde Solitarie è appena uscito per Castelvecchi Editore nella collana QBit. Si tratta di un viaggio divulgativo nel mondo dei solitoni e delle loro manifestazioni in diverse discipline della scienza e della tecnologia!

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tinyurl.com/OndeSolitarieIT
March 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by Auro Perego
Here's a review in Italian of my poetry collection Wing, together with translations of three of the poems. You can use Google Translate to translate them into English. Interestingly the retranslated poems come out very close to the original text. poetarumsilva.com/2024/10/24/n...
Nel dettaglio dell’infinitamente piccolo: Wing, Matthew Francis
Testo e traduzioni a cura di Auro Michele Perego     Echi di paesaggi costieri del Galles e della Cornovaglia, gli sguardi pionieristici a scorgere il mondo dell’infinitamente piccolo di …
poetarumsilva.com
October 24, 2024 at 10:11 AM
I am happy to announce that my new book "Onde Solitarie" popularising the fascinating physics of the ubiquitous solitary waves (solitons) - with philosophical and poetry excursions too - has been published today in 🇮🇹 language by Castelvecchi Editore

www.castelvecchieditore.com/prodotto/ond...
Onde solitarie. Una riconciliazione fisica degli opposti - Castelvecchi Editore
Auro Michele Perego Onde solitarie. Una riconciliazione fisica degli opposti Prefazione di Giuseppe
www.castelvecchieditore.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM