Nonlinear spectral shaping and optical rogue events in fiber-based systems

作者：Hammani Kamal; Kibler Bertrand; Fatome Julien; Boscolo Sonia; Genty Goery; Dudley John M; Millot Guy; Finot Christophe^*

来源：Optical Fiber Technology, 2012, 18(5): 248-256.

DOI：10.1016/j.yofte.2012.06.009

• Fiber optics
• Supercontinuum
• Pulse shaping
• Extreme statistics
• Optical solitons

We provide an overview of our recent work on the shaping and stability of optical continua in the long pulse regime. Fibers with normal group-velocity dispersion at all-wavelengths are shown to allow for highly coherent continua that can be nonlinearly shaped using appropriate initial conditions. In contrast, supercontinua generated in the anomalous dispersion regime are shown to exhibit large fluctuations in the temporal and spectral domains that can be controlled using a carefully chosen seed. A particular example of this is the first experimental observation of the Peregrine soliton which constitutes a prototype of optical rogue-waves.

• 出版日期2012-9