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Optical rogue waves

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  • D. R. Solli

    (University of California)

  • C. Ropers

    (University of California
    Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy)

  • P. Koonath

    (University of California)

  • B. Jalali

    (University of California)

Abstract

Catch a freak wave Mariners have known for centuries that freak, giant waves can appear out of the blue in the ocean. The probability of encountering such a 'rogue' wave was recently found to be much larger than expected from conventional wave-amplitude statistics. In an effort to understand the physics of such events, Solli et al. investigate the concept of optical rogue waves. Using a new real-time detection technique, they study a system — based on a microstructured optical fibre — that exposes extremely steep, large optical waves as rare outcomes from an injection of a population of almost-identical optical pulses. The optical rogue waves arise when random noise perturbs the initially smooth pulses with a certain frequency shift and within a well-defined time window.

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  • D. R. Solli & C. Ropers & P. Koonath & B. Jalali, 2007. "Optical rogue waves," Nature, Nature, vol. 450(7172), pages 1054-1057, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:450:y:2007:i:7172:d:10.1038_nature06402
    DOI: 10.1038/nature06402
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