DocumentCode :
2867153
Title :
Experimental characterization of optical rogue waves in the femtosecond regime
Author :
Genty, G. ; Erkintalo, Miro ; Lafargue, C. ; Dias, F. ; Bolger, J. ; Eggleton, B. ; Dudley, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland
fYear :
2009
fDate :
14-19 June 2009
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
1
Abstract :
In this paper, we report experiments showing that such rogue soliton events can be observed under more general conditions and can be detected using a more straightforward direct detection setup. We launch 300 fs pulses with 5 kW peak power from an 80 MHz repetition rate Ti:Sapphire laser into an 8 m long photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with zero- dispersion at 1040 nm. To investigate the statistical properties of the supercontinuum (SC) generation, we use a long-pass filter to select long wavelength spectral structure, but rather than use photonic time stretching to measure pulse intensity statistics. The slow response time of the photodiode yields a time series where peak height is proportional to the integrated energy of the long wavelength filtered SC.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; holey fibres; optical fibre dispersion; optical materials; optical pumping; optical solitons; photodiodes; photonic crystals; sapphire; solid lasers; statistical analysis; supercontinuum generation; titanium; Al2O3:Ti; femtosecond regime; long-pass filter; optical rogue wave; photodiode; photonic crystal fiber; power 5 kW; rogue soliton; size 8 m; solid laser; statistical property; supercontinuum generation; time 300 fs; wavelength 1040 nm; zero-dispersion; Event detection; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Power lasers; Pulse measurements; Ultrafast optics;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4079-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4080-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5196590
Filename :
5196590
Link To Document :
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