Extreme events in Q- switched lasers

AGUIAR, F.; RIOS LEITE, J.; METAYER C. ; QUINIOU T.; SERRES A. ; TREDICCE J.; A HNILO; M. KOVALSKY

Barcelona

Conferencia; Nonlinear Photonics 2014; 2014

Optical Society of America

Since optical rogue waves (RWs) were first reported by Solli et al. in 2007, the study of extreme pulses in optical systems has been a very active research field . In semiconductor lasers, ultra-high intensity pulses occur when the laser is subjected to optical injection. RWs induced by the interplay of multistability and noise in a erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) have also been reported. Here we consider the nonlinear dynamics of a class-B laser with loss modulation.