Extreme events (optical rogue waves) in self-pulsing lasers

A. HNILO

Arlington

Conferencia; Non Linear Optics Annual Review; 2015

Basic Research Innovation Collaboration Center

Our Project involves the experimental study of optical rogue waves in self-pulsing lasers (lasers with a nonlinear, or saturable, absorber):? Self (or Kerr-lens)-mode-locked Ti:Sapphire laser (pulses of fs duration at rate 100 MHz); ?fast? saturable absorber, λ=808 nm.? Self Q-switched all-solid-state Neodymium laser (pulses of ns duration at rate 10 KHz); ?slow? saturable absorber, λ=1064 nm.The most important result is that we have established that ORW occur in this laser only if a threshold similar to the Modulational Instability condition is crossed. This result makes this laser attractive as a toy system to study the formation of ocean RW.