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