Granularity and Inhomogeneity Are the Joint Generators of Optical Rogue Waves

Anno: 2011

Autori: Arecchi F.T., Bortolozzo U., Montina A., Residori S.

Affiliazione autori: Univ Florence, Dipartimento Fis, I-50019 Florence, Italy; CNR INO, I-50125 Florence, Italy; Univ Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, INLN, F-06560 Valbonne, France; Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada.

Abstract: In the presence of many waves, giant events can occur with a probability higher than expected for random dynamics. By studying linear light propagation in a glass fiber, we show that optical rogue waves originate from two key ingredients: granularity, or a minimal size of the light speckles at the fiber exit, and inhomogeneity, that is, speckles clustering into separate domains with different average intensities. These two features characterize also rogue waves in nonlinear systems; thus, nonlinearity just plays the role of bringing forth the two ingredients of granularity and inhomogeneity.

Giornale/Rivista: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 106 (15)      Da Pagina: 153901-1  A: 153901-4

Maggiori informazioni: Research at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is supported in part by the Government of Canada through NSERC and by the Province of Ontario through MRI.
Parole chiavi: Inhomogeneities; Non-Linearity; Random dynamics; Rogue waves
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.153901

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