Optical rogue waves: Theory and experiments

Majid Taki; A. Mussot; E Louvergneaux; Alexandre Kudlinski; Mikhail Kolobov; Marc Douay; Nail Akhmediev

Abstract

We present an experimental and theoretical study of optical rogue waves generated in photonic crystal fibers supercontinuum under continuous-wave pumping. They correspond to sharp, rare and extremely high power pulses sharing the main features of the devastating freak waves also known as “walls of water” by seafarers, appearing in the ocean. We demonstrate that these rare events originate from convective instabilities and that their rapid
appearance/disappearance results from the collision of solitons. More importantly, L-shaped probability distributions of the peak intensities and a strong dependence on initial noisy conditions have been both numerically and experimentally observed

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1
Journal	Proceedings of Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology in association with the International Workshop on Dissipative Solitons
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology in association with the International Workshop on Dissipative Solitons (ACOLS ACOFT 2009) - Adelaide Australia, Australia Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → …

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Optical rogue waves: Theory and experiments. / Taki, Majid; Mussot, A.; Louvergneaux, E et al.
In: Proceedings of Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology in association with the International Workshop on Dissipative Solitons, 2009, p. 1.

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Optical rogue waves: Theory and experiments

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