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Brillouin scattering-induced rogue waves in self-pulsing fiber lasers

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We report the experimental observation of extreme instabilities in a self-pulsing fiber laser under the influence of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). Specifically, we observe temporally localized structures with high intensities that can be referred to as rogue events through their statistical behaviour with highly-skewed intensity distributions. The emergence of these SBS-induced rogue waves is attributed to the interplay between laser operation and resonant Stokes orders. As this behaviour is not accounted for by existing models, we also present numerical simulations showing that such instabilities can be observed in chaotic laser operation. This study opens up new possibilities towards harnessing extreme events in highly-dissipative systems through adapted laser cavity configurations.

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hal-01611151 , version 1 (05-10-2017)

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Pierre-Henry Hanzard, Mohamed Talbi, Djouher Mallek, Abdelhamid Kellou, Hervé Leblond, et al.. Brillouin scattering-induced rogue waves in self-pulsing fiber lasers. Scientific Reports, 2017, 7, pp.45868. ⟨10.1038/srep45868⟩. ⟨hal-01611151⟩
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