Harnessing and control of optical rogue waves in supercontinuum generation

JM Dudley, G Genty, BJ Eggleton - Optics Express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We present a numerical study of the evolution dynamics of “optical rogue waves”, statistically-
rare extreme red-shifted soliton pulses arising from supercontinuum generation in photonic …

Rogue-wave-like characteristics in femtosecond supercontinuum generation

M Erkintalo, G Genty, JM Dudley - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally study the characteristics of optical rogue waves in supercontinuum
generation in the femtosecond regime. Specifically, the intensity histograms obtained from …

Third-order dispersion for generating optical rogue solitons

M Taki, A Mussot, A Kudlinski, E Louvergneaux… - Physics Letters A, 2010 - Elsevier
We theoretically and numerically evidence that optical rare and strong temporal events
generated in fiber supercontinua originate from convective modulational instabilities. This …

Controlled giant rogue waves in nonlinear fiber optics

CN Kumar, R Gupta, A Goyal, S Loomba, TS Raju… - Physical Review A, 2012 - APS
We show the existence of self-similar giant rogue waves in a tapered graded-index
nonlinear fiber and analytically illustrate their amplification in a rather small spatiotemporal …

Controllable optical rogue waves in the femtosecond regime

CQ Dai, GQ Zhou, JF Zhang - Physical Review E, 2012 - APS
We derive analytical rogue wave solutions of variable-coefficient higher-order nonlinear
Schrödinger equations describing the femtosecond pulse propagation via a transformation …

Recent progress in investigating optical rogue waves

N Akhmediev, JM Dudley, DR Solli… - Journal of optics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The science of rogue waves in optics is now over five years old, and it has emerged as an
area of broad interest to researchers across the physical sciences [1]. This area of study was …

Observation of extreme temporal events in CW-pumped supercontinuum

A Mussot, A Kudlinski, M Kolobov, E Louvergneaux… - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We study experimentally and numerically the temporal features of supercontinuum
generated with a continuous-wave ytterbium-doped fiber laser. We show that the temporal …

Real-time full bandwidth measurement of spectral noise in supercontinuum generation

B Wetzel, A Stefani, L Larger, PA Lacourt, JM Merolla… - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
The ability to measure real-time fluctuations of ultrashort pulses propagating in optical fiber
has provided significant insights into fundamental dynamical effects such as modulation …

Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics

JM Dudley, F Dias, M Erkintalo, G Genty - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
Optical rogue waves are rare, extreme fluctuations in the value of an optical field. The
term'optical rogue wave'was first used in the context of an analogy between pulse …

Active control of rogue waves for stimulated supercontinuum generation

DR Solli, C Ropers, B Jalali - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
We demonstrate that rogue waves provide a powerful tool to actively control a nonlinear
system with minimal effort. Specifically, optical rogue waves—rare, bright flashes of …