title: An adaptive filter for studying the life cycle of optical rogue waves.
abstract: We present an adaptive numerical filter for analyzing fiber-length dependent properties of optical rogue waves, which are highly intense and extremely red-shifted solitons that arise during supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber. We use this filter to study a data set of 1000 simulated supercontinuum pulses, produced from 5 ps pump pulses containing random noise. Optical rogue waves arise in different supercontinuum pulses at various positions along the fiber, and exhibit a lifecycle: their intensity peaks over a finite range of fiber length before declining slowly.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Lightwave Technology, Key Lab of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network of EMC, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.
authors.forename: Chu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Eric J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Rees
authors.forename: Toni
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laurila
authors.forename: Shuisheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jian
authors.forename: Clemens F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Kaminski
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical