Observation of extreme temporal events in CW-pumped supercontinuum.
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.
Mussot
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Université Lille 1, Laboratoire PhLAM, IRCICA, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. arnaud.mussot@univ-lille1.fr
Kudlinski
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Kolobov
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Louvergneaux
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Douay
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Taki
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