title: Dissipative rogue waves generated by chaotic pulse bunching in a mode-locked laser.
abstract: Rare events of extremely high optical intensity are experimentally recorded at the output of a mode-locked fiber laser that operates in a strongly dissipative regime of chaotic multiple-pulse generation. The probability distribution of these intensity fluctuations, which highly depend on the cavity parameters, features a long-tailed distribution. Recorded intensity fluctuations result from the ceaseless relative motion and nonlinear interaction of pulses within a temporally localized multisoliton phase.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, U.M.R. 6303 C.N.R.S., Université de Bourgogne, 9 avenue A. Savary, BP 47870 Dijon Cedex 21078, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lecaplain
authors.forename: Ph
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grelu
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Soto-Crespo
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akhmediev