Investigating the robustness of optical bits (e.g., optical solitons) to deterministic and random perturbations
Developing hybrid analytical/computational methods (e.g., using biased sampling techniques) to compute statistics of low-probability events, such as bit errors in optical communication lines
Exploring the validity of finite-dimensional reductions of dispersive PDEs
Analysing patterns/localised objects and their dynamics in damped-dispersive systems
Exploring the effect of heating on dispersive systems such as optical parametric gain devices
Devising multi-scale computational techniques to exploit the disparity of time scales in physically relevant coupled hyperbolic-parabolic systems
Recent Publications
R. O. Moore, K. Promislow, "Mean-field limit of optical parametric oscillators with self-heating", in preparation.
R. O. Moore, G. Biondini and W. L. Kath, "A method to compute statistics of large, noise-induced perturbations of nonlinear Schrödinger solitons", revised version selected for publication in SIGEST section of SIAM Review, to appear in 2008.
R. O. Moore and K. Promislow, The semi-strong limit of multipulse interaction in a thermally driven optical system, submitted to J. Diff. Eq.