title: Rogue-wave bullets in a composite (2+1)D nonlinear medium.
abstract: We show that nonlinear wave packets localized in two dimensions with characteristic rogue wave profiles can propagate in a third dimension with significant stability. This unique behavior makes these waves analogous to light bullets, with the additional feature that they propagate on a finite background. Bulletlike rogue-wave singlet and triplet are derived analytically from a composite (2+1)D nonlinear wave equation. The latter can be interpreted as the combination of two integrable (1+1)D models expressed in different dimensions, namely, the Hirota equation and the complex modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. Numerical simulations confirm that the generation of rogue-wave bullets can be observed in the presence of spontaneous modulation instability activated by quantum noise.
authors.forename: Shihua
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jose M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Soto-Crespo
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Baronio
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grelu
authors.forename: Dumitru
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mihalache