title: Raman rogue waves in a partially mode-locked fiber laser.
abstract: We report on an experimental study of spectral fluctuations induced by intracavity Raman conversion in a passively partially mode-locked, all-normal dispersion fiber laser. Specifically, we use dispersive Fourier transformation to measure single-shot spectra of Raman-induced noise-like pulses, demonstrating that for low cavity gain values Raman emission is sporadic and follows rogue-wave-like probability distributions, while a saturated regime with Gaussian statistics is obtained for high pump powers. Our experiments further reveal intracavity rogue waves originating from cascaded Raman dynamics.
authors.forename: Antoine F J
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Runge
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aguergaray
authors.forename: Neil G R
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Broderick
authors.forename: Miro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Erkintalo