The picosecond structure of ultra-fast rogue waves

Moti Fridman, Avi Klein, Hamootal Duadi, Gilad Masri, Shir Shahal, Kfir Sulimani, Ohad Lib, Hadar Steinberg, Stanislav A. Kolpakov, Bahram Jalali, Günter Steinmeyer (Editor), Daniel R. Solli (Editor)

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Abstract

We investigated ultrafast rogue waves in fiber lasers and found three different patterns of rogue waves: single- peaks, twin-peaks, and triple-peaks. The statistics of the different patterns as a function of the pump power of the laser reveals that the probability for all rogue waves patterns increase close to the laser threshold. We developed a numerical model which prove that the ultrafast rogue waves patterns result from both the polarization mode dispersion in the fiber and the non-instantaneous nature of the saturable absorber. This discovery reveals that there are three different types of rogue waves in fiber lasers: slow, fast, and ultrafast, which relate to three different time-scales and are governed by three different sets of equations: the laser rate equations, the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, and the saturable absorber equations, accordingly. This discovery is highly important for analyzing rogue waves and other extreme events in fiber lasers and can lead to realizing types of rogue waves which were not possible so far such as triangular rogue waves.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReal-time Measurements, Rogue Phenomena, and Single-Shot Applications III
PublisherSPIE
Pages3
Volume10517
ISBN (Print)978-151061519-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Feb 2018
EventReal-time Measurements, Rogue Phenomena, and Single-Shot Applications III - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 27 Jan 20181 Feb 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE
PublisherSPIE
Volume10517
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceReal-time Measurements, Rogue Phenomena, and Single-Shot Applications III
Period27/01/181/02/18

Bibliographical note

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Keywords

  • Extreme events, rogue waves, optical data processing, four-wave mixing

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