Abstract
AbstractFiber lasers offer tabletop nonlinear environments to mimic and study the complex dynamics of nature. Optical rogue waves, rarely occurring extreme intensity fluctuations, are one of the many subjects that can be investigated with a fiber laser cavity. Although oceanic rogue waves are a result of spatiotemporal dynamics, the single-mode nature of the fiber laser and the commonly used measurement techniques limit the optical rogue wave studies to only temporal dynamics. In this study, we overcome such limit to observe rogue wave real-time dynamics in spatiotemporally mode-locked fiber lasers by utilizing state-of-the-art compressed ultrafast photography technique. The multimode laser cavity exhibits long-tailed non-Gaussian distributions under relaxed cavity constraints. Single-shot spatiotemporal measurements of rogue events showed that, instead of noise bursts, the cavity produces clean pulses with high-quality beam profiles. Our results indicate that rogue events in spatiotemporally mode-locked fiber lasers undergo nonlinear spatial transformation due to a power-dependent consistent attractor.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
Cited by
3 articles.
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