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T1 - Spatial rogue waves in the actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser under low Kerr nonlinearity
AU - Navitskaya, Roza
AU - Stashkevich, Ihar
AU - Derevyanko, Stanislav
AU - Karabchevsky, Alina
PY - 2022/9/26
Y1 - 2022/9/26
N2 - We report the generation of spatial rogue waves in an actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. We observed that spatial rogue waves can emerge when the laser operates in a low-power regime below the self-focusing limit, while the lasing takes place at a large number of high-order transverse modes. These results suggest that the main mechanism leading to rogue waves generation is the modal overlap while large Kerr nonlinearity in the cavity is not a necessary factor in the process of spatial rogue waves formation. We have also investigated the spatio-temporal and coherence properties of the observed rogue waves.
AB - We report the generation of spatial rogue waves in an actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. We observed that spatial rogue waves can emerge when the laser operates in a low-power regime below the self-focusing limit, while the lasing takes place at a large number of high-order transverse modes. These results suggest that the main mechanism leading to rogue waves generation is the modal overlap while large Kerr nonlinearity in the cavity is not a necessary factor in the process of spatial rogue waves formation. We have also investigated the spatio-temporal and coherence properties of the observed rogue waves.
U2 - 10.1364/OE.470219
DO - 10.1364/OE.470219
M3 - Journal article
VL - 30
SP - 37076
EP - 37084
JO - Optics Express
JF - Optics Express
SN - 1094-4087
IS - 20
ER -