| Optical bullet holes: robust controllable localized states of a nonlinear cavity WJ Firth, AJ Scroggie Physical review letters 76 (10), 1623, 1996 | 524 | 1996 |
| Optical solitons carrying orbital angular momentum WJ Firth, DV Skryabin Physical review letters 79 (13), 2450, 1997 | 418 | 1997 |
| Spontaneous hexagon formation in a nonlinear optical medium with feedback mirror G d’Alessandro, WJ Firth Physical review letters 66 (20), 2597, 1991 | 357 | 1991 |
| Spatial soliton pixels in semiconductor devices M Brambilla, LA Lugiato, F Prati, L Spinelli, WJ Firth Physical review letters 79 (11), 2042, 1997 | 294 | 1997 |
| Pattern formation in a passive Kerr cavity AJ Scroggie, WJ Firth, GS McDonald, M Tlidi, R Lefever, LA Lugiato Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 4 (8-9), 1323-1354, 1994 | 272 | 1994 |
| Hexagonal spatial patterns for a Kerr slice with a feedback mirror G d’Alessandro, WJ Firth Physical Review A 46 (1), 537, 1992 | 272 | 1992 |
| Overview of transverse effects in nonlinear-optical systems NB Abraham, WJ Firth JOSA B 7 (6), 951-962, 1990 | 253 | 1990 |
| Spatial instabilities in a Kerr medium with single feedback mirror WJ Firth Journal of Modern Optics 37 (2), 151-153, 1990 | 252 | 1990 |
| Fundamentals and applications of spatial dissipative solitons in photonic devices T Ackemann, WJ Firth, GL Oppo Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics 57, 323-421, 2009 | 246 | 2009 |
| Transverse modulational instabilities for counterpropagating beams in Kerr media WJ Firth, C Paré Optics letters 13 (12), 1096-1098, 1988 | 199 | 1988 |
| Realization of a semiconductor-based cavity soliton laser Y Tanguy, T Ackemann, WJ Firth, R Jäger Physical Review Letters 100 (1), 013907, 2008 | 198 | 2008 |
| Dynamics of self-trapped beams with phase dislocation in saturable Kerr and quadratic nonlinear media DV Skryabin, WJ Firth Physical Review E 58 (3), 3916, 1998 | 181 | 1998 |
| Spatial solitary-wave optical memory GS McDonald, WJ Firth JOSA B 7 (7), 1328-1335, 1990 | 177 | 1990 |
| Stabilization, selection, and tracking of unstable patterns by Fourier space techniques R Martin, AJ Scroggie, GL Oppo, WJ Firth Physical review letters 77 (19), 4007, 1996 | 169 | 1996 |
| Stability of multihump optical solitons EA Ostrovskaya, YS Kivshar, DV Skryabin, WJ Firth Physical review letters 83 (2), 296, 1999 | 154 | 1999 |
| All-optical delay line using semiconductor cavity solitons F Pedaci, S Barland, E Caboche, P Genevet, M Giudici, JR Tredicce, ... Applied Physics Letters 92 (1), 2008 | 150 | 2008 |
| Two-dimensional clusters of solitary structures in driven optical cavities AG Vladimirov, JM McSloy, DV Skryabin, WJ Firth Physical Review E 65 (4), 046606, 2002 | 137 | 2002 |
| Optomechanical self-structuring in a cold atomic gas G Labeyrie, E Tesio, PM Gomes, GL Oppo, WJ Firth, GRM Robb, ... Nature Photonics 8 (4), 321-325, 2014 | 135 | 2014 |
| Spontaneous pattern formation in an absorptive system WJ Firth, AJ Scroggie Europhysics Letters 26 (7), 521, 1994 | 133 | 1994 |
| Cavity solitons in semiconductor microresonators: Existence, stability, and dynamical properties T Maggipinto, M Brambilla, GK Harkness, WJ Firth Physical Review E 62 (6), 8726, 2000 | 125 | 2000 |
