Rare frustration of optical supercontinuum generation
- 12 April 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 96 (15) , 151108
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3374860
Abstract
Recent work has shown that optical rogue waves, large bandwidth fluctuations following heavy-tailed statistics, can arise during spectral broadening by stochastic enhancement of nonlinearity. Here, we report the observation of a different form of extreme fluctuations in supercontinuum pulse trains: Pulses of unusually small spectral bandwidth following left-skewed heavy-tailed statistics. Displaying a pulse evolution strongly varying from that of large extremes in supercontinuum, these rogue events appear when spectral broadening is frustrated by competition between presolitonic features within the modulation-instability band. This suppression effect can also be externally induced with a weak control pulse.Keywords
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