Neil Broderick
Soliton Explosions and Optical Rogue Waves
n.broderick@auckland.ac.nz
Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Department of Physics, University of Auckland
We will present our recent results regarding the observation of soliton explosions in an all-normal dispersion fibre laser. Using a real time dispersive Fourier transform we were able to make single shot measurements of the spectrum showing how the explosion happens in frequency space and how this translates to the temporal behaviour of the pulse. Simulations of the generalised nonlinear Schrodinger equation agree well with the experimental results and highlight the regions between stability and chaos in such systems. Further investigations highlight the presence of optical rogue waves and chimera states in such a laser which will be discussed in the presentation.