Observation of extreme temporal events in CW-pumped supercontinuum
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- 9 September 2009
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 17 (19) , 17010-17015
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.17.017010
Abstract
We study experimentally and numerically the temporal features of supercontinuum generated with a continuous-wave ytterbium-doped fiber laser. We show that the temporal output of the supercontinuum is characterized by strong and brief power fluctuations, i.e. so-called optical rogue waves. We demonstrate numerically that these rare and strong events that appear and disappear from nowhere result from solitonic collisions.Keywords
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