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Liu C, Rees EJ, Laurila T, Jian S, Kaminski CF, "An adaptive filter for studying the life cycle of optical rogue waves", Optics Express 18 (25), 26113-26122, (2010), DOI:10.1364/OE.18.026113| pdf

 


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. 

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