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Applied Physics Letters / Volume 96 / Issue 15 / LASERS, OPTICS, AND OPTOELECTRONICS

Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 151108 (2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3374860 (3 pages)

Rare frustration of optical supercontinuum generation

D. R. Solli1, C. Ropers1,2, and B. Jalali1

1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
2Courant Research Center Nano-Spectroscopy and X-Ray Imaging, University of Göttingen, Germany

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(Received 6 February 2010; accepted 24 February 2010; published online 14 April 2010)

Recent work has shown that optical rogue waves, large bandwidth fluctuations following heavy-tailed statistics, can arise during spectral broadening by stochastic enhancement of nonlinearity. Here, we report the observation of a different form of extreme fluctuations in supercontinuum pulse trains: Pulses of unusually small spectral bandwidth following left-skewed heavy-tailed statistics. Displaying a pulse evolution strongly varying from that of large extremes in supercontinuum, these rogue events appear when spectral broadening is frustrated by competition between presolitonic features within the modulation-instability band. This suppression effect can also be externally induced with a weak control pulse.

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Keywords

high-speed optical techniques, spectral line broadening, statistics, stochastic processes, supercontinuum generation

PACS

  • 42.65.Re

    Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression

  • 02.50.Ey

    Stochastic processes

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0003-6951 (print)  
1077-3118 (online)

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