Rogue waves in femtosecond supercontinuum generation

Author

Genty, G. ; Erkintalo, M. ; Dudley, J.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We experimentally study the characteristics of optical rogue waves in supercontinuum generation in the femtosecond regime. Specifically, the intensity histograms obtained from spectrally filtering the supercontinuum exhibit the L-shaped characteristics typical of extreme-value phenomena on the long wavelength. Furthermore, the form of the histogram on the long wavelength edge varies from L-shaped to quasi-Gaussian as wavelengths closer to the pump are included in the filtered measurements.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre filters; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; supercontinuum generation; L-shaped characteristics; extreme-value phenomena; femtosecond pulses; intensity histograms; optical fiber; optical pumps; optical rogue wave characteristics; quasiGaussian wavelength; spectrally filtering; supercontinuum generation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Histograms; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Optical solitons; Statistical distributions; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics; soliton propagation; supercontinuum;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5184974

Filename

5184974