Abstract
We reported an experimental study on fast and slow temporal scaling of rogue waves’ emergence in a long (615 m) ring cavity erbium-doped fiber laser. The criterion for distinguishing between the fast and slow rogue waves is a comparison of the event lifetime with the system’s main characteristic time estimated from the decay of an autocorrelation function (AF). Thus, compared with the AF characteristic time, fast optical rogue wave (FORW) events have lifetime duration shorter than the AF decay time, and they appeared due to the mechanism of the pulse-to-pulse interaction and nonlinear pulse dynamics. In contrast, a slow optical rogue wave (SORW) has lifetime duration much longer than the decay time of the AF, which results from the hopping between different attractors. Switching between regimes can be managed by adjusting the in-cavity birefringence.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1048508 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Frontiers in Physics |
Volume | 10 |
Early online date | 30 Nov 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Nov 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright © 2022, Kbashi, Kolpakov and Sergeyev. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]. The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.Funding Information:
The study was supported by the UK EPSRC Project EP/W002868/1, European Union’s grants Horizon 2020 ETN MEFISTA (861152), and EID MOCCA (814147).
Keywords
- Physics
- soliton rain
- fiber laser
- autocorrelation function
- fiber birefringence
- rogue wave (RW)