Extreme events in Q- switched lasers

AGUIAR, F.; RIOS LEITE, J.; METAYER C.; QUINIOU T.; SERRES A.; TREDICCE J.; M AGUERO; C. BONAZZOLA; A.HNILO; M. KOVALSKY; A. LACAPMESURE; N. MIRON

Viña del Mar

Congreso; III Dynamics Days South America; 2014

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, ultrahigh 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.