Title :
Rogue waves in the transverse plane of femtosecond multifilaments
Author :
Birkholz, Simon ; Brée, Carsten ; Genty, Goëry ; Nibbering, Erik T J ; Steinmeyer, Günter
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst. fur Nichtlineare Opt. und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (MBI), Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
The appearance of extreme-value statistics is experimentally observed in the beam profiles of multifilaments. Rogue wave formation sets in together with multifilament formation, with the strongest L-shaped distributions for inputs of 20 critical powers.
Keywords :
laser beams; physical optics; statistical analysis; Rogue wave formation; beam profiles; critical powers; extreme-value statistics; femtosecond multifilaments; multifilament formation; transverse plane; Cameras; Image color analysis; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Solitons; Ultrafast optics; Xenon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
