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Intracavity incoherent supercontinuum dynamics and rogue waves in a broadband dissipative soliton laser. / Meng, Fanchao; Lapre, Coraline; Billet, Cyril et al.
In: Nature Communications, Vol. 12, No. 1, 5567, 01.12.2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Intracavity incoherent supercontinuum dynamics and rogue waves in a broadband dissipative soliton laser
AU - Meng, Fanchao
AU - Lapre, Coraline
AU - Billet, Cyril
AU - Sylvestre, Thibaut
AU - Merolla, Jean Marc
AU - Finot, Christophe
AU - Turitsyn, Sergei K.
AU - Genty, Goëry
AU - Dudley, John M.
N1 - Funding Information: F.M., C.L., C.B., T.S., J.M.M. and J.M.D. acknowledge support from the French Inves-tissements d’Avenir programme, project ISITE-BFC (contract ANR-15-IDEX-0003) and project EUR (ANR-17-EURE-0002). G.G. acknowledges support from the Academy of Finland (Grants 318082, 333949, Flagship PREIN 320165). J.M.D. and C.F. also acknowledge project ANR-20-CE30-0004. S.K.T. acknowledges the support of the Russian Science Foundation (grant number 17-72-30006). Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - Understanding dynamical complexity is one of the most important challenges in science. Significant progress has recently been made in optics through the study of dissipative soliton laser systems, where dynamics are governed by a complex balance between nonlinearity, dispersion, and energy exchange. A particularly complex regime of such systems is associated with noise-like pulse multiscale instabilities, where sub-picosecond pulses with random characteristics evolve chaotically underneath a much longer envelope. However, although observed for decades in experiments, the physics of this regime remains poorly understood, especially for highly-nonlinear cavities generating broadband spectra. Here, we address this question directly with a combined numerical and experimental study that reveals the physical origin of instability as nonlinear soliton dynamics and supercontinuum turbulence. Real-time characterisation reveals intracavity extreme events satisfying statistical rogue wave criteria, and both real-time and time-averaged measurements are in quantitative agreement with modelling.
AB - Understanding dynamical complexity is one of the most important challenges in science. Significant progress has recently been made in optics through the study of dissipative soliton laser systems, where dynamics are governed by a complex balance between nonlinearity, dispersion, and energy exchange. A particularly complex regime of such systems is associated with noise-like pulse multiscale instabilities, where sub-picosecond pulses with random characteristics evolve chaotically underneath a much longer envelope. However, although observed for decades in experiments, the physics of this regime remains poorly understood, especially for highly-nonlinear cavities generating broadband spectra. Here, we address this question directly with a combined numerical and experimental study that reveals the physical origin of instability as nonlinear soliton dynamics and supercontinuum turbulence. Real-time characterisation reveals intracavity extreme events satisfying statistical rogue wave criteria, and both real-time and time-averaged measurements are in quantitative agreement with modelling.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-021-25861-4
DO - 10.1038/s41467-021-25861-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 34552078
AN - SCOPUS:85115414101
VL - 12
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
IS - 1
M1 - 5567
ER -
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