• DocumentCode
    733674
  • Title

    Rogue waves in a normal-dispersion fiber laser

  • Author

    Zhanwei Liu ; Shumin Zhang ; Wise, Frank W.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Appl. & Eng. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The first observations of rogue-wave formation in a normal-dispersion fiber laser are reported. With an interference filter in the cavity, non-Gaussian distributions with pulses as large as 6 times the significant wave height are observed.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; interference filters; laser cavity resonators; optical dispersion; cavity; interference filter; laser pulses; nonGaussian distributions; normal-dispersion fiber laser; rogue waves; Cavity resonators; Dispersion; Noise; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7184115