title: Extreme-value statistics in supercontinuum generation by cascaded stimulated Raman scattering.
abstract: We study experimentally the statistical fluctuations observed in a supercontinuum generated in the normal dispersion regime through cascaded stimulated Raman scattering. Specifically, we show that the statistical distribution of shot-to-shot spectral variations evolves from a quasi-Gaussian in the saturated regime for Stokes orders near the pump to a long-tailed extreme-value distribution for Stokes orders at a large separation from the pump in the unsaturated regime.
authors.affiliation: Tampere University of Technology, Optics Laboratory, Tampere, Finland. antti.2.aalto@tut.fi
authors.forename: Antti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aalto
authors.forename: Goëry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Genty
authors.forename: Juha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Toivonen
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D008027:Light; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000379:methods*