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Auro Perego
@nonlinearlight.bsky.social
Associate Professor & Deputy Director at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies

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Onde Solitarie
Unstable Nature
Natura Instabile
OFC: Trends in Sources and Applications (Ed.)
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On 27th of September I will give a popular science talk, during the Lake Como Light Festival, about "Unstable light, at the borders between order and chaos"

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Luce instabile: ai confini tra l'ordine e il caos
Auro Perego, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, UK
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Check out our new paper on optical reservoir computing recently published in Optics Express!

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October 1, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Nice to be today at @astonphotonics.bsky.social PGR Voices event at Birmingham Botanical Gardens !
September 8, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Il 27 di Settembre farò un intervento divulgativo al Lake Como Light Festival dal titolo "Luce instabile: ai confini tra l'ordine e il caos"

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Luce instabile: ai confini tra l'ordine e il caos
Auro Perego, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, UK
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September 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
On 27th of September I will give a popular science talk, during the Lake Como Light Festival, about "Unstable light, at the borders between order and chaos"

www.eventbrite.it/e/luce-insta...
Luce instabile: ai confini tra l'ordine e il caos
Auro Perego, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, UK
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September 2, 2026 at 2:47 PM
A new paper from our team, on the use of Mamyshev regenerator for electro-optic combs. Work by Alberto Rodriguez-Cuevas and collaboration with Eiji Hase from Tokushima University. Experimental results will come soon...

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August 27, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Domani darò un talk divulgativo a Roma su entropia e auto-organizzazione. Un dialogo tra Fisica e Architettura del Paesaggio!
July 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Tomorrow I will give a popular science talk in Rome about entropy and self-organisation. A dialogue with Landscape Architects!
July 6, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Un breve assaggio del mio libro "Onde solitarie" 🌊✨️

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Onde Solitarie. Mini introduzione
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January 13, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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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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...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Un breve assaggio del mio libro "Natura Instabile" 🐙

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Natura Instabile. Mini Introduzione
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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 👇👇👇

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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...
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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!

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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...
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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 🎉🎇🧠💻🌈

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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...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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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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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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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...
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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

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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...
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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 👇👇👇

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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...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Unstable Nature is finally out today in a light paperback edition!

You find it also here 👇📕✒️

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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 ...
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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💻🧠 🌈

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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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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 ...
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April 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM