The concept of rogue waves in an optical system is investigated by utilizing a new real-time detection technique to study a system that exposes extremely steep, large optical waves as rare outcomes from injection of a population of almost-identical optical pulses. Analysis of these results finds that the optical rogue waves arise when random noise perturbs the initially smooth pulses with a certain frequency shift and within a well-defined time window.
- D. R. Solli
- C. Ropers
- B. Jalali
