Emergence of rogue waves from optical turbulence

Kamal Hammani (1) , Bertrand Kibler (1) , Christophe Finot (1) , Antonio Picozzi (1)

1 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

We show the emergence of rogue wave events from optical turbulence. Depending on the amount of incoherence in the system, we identified different turbulent regimes that exhibit intermittent rogue events or sporadic bursts of light.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Kamal Hammani, Bertrand Kibler, Christophe Finot, Antonio Picozzi. Emergence of rogue waves from optical turbulence. Nonlinear Photonics, Jun 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany. pp.NMA5. ⟨hal-00469974⟩