Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 18, 2026

Low-cost Custom Fabrication and Mode-locked Operation of an All-normal-dispersion Femtosecond Fiber Laser for Multiphoton Microscopy
Published on: November 22, 2019
Dissipative rogue waves generated by chaotic pulse bunching in a mode-locked laser
C Lecaplain1, Ph Grelu, J M Soto-Crespo
1Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, U.M.R. 6303 C.N.R.S., Université de Bourgogne, 9 avenue A. Savary, BP 47870 Dijon Cedex 21078, France.
Abstract:
Rare events of extremely high optical intensity are experimentally recorded at the output of a mode-locked fiber laser that operates in a strongly dissipative regime of chaotic multiple-pulse generation. The probability distribution of these intensity fluctuations, which highly depend on the cavity parameters, features a long-tailed distribution. Recorded intensity fluctuations result from the ceaseless relative motion and nonlinear interaction of pulses within a temporally localized multisoliton phase.
Related Concept Videos
Standing Waves in a Cavity
Interference and Diffraction
Oscillations In An LC Circuit
Propagation of Waves
Consider a scenario where a wave propagates from a string of low linear mass density to a string of high linear mass density. In such a case, the reflected wave is out of phase with respect to the incident wave, however the...
Modes of Standing Waves - I
The de Broglie Wavelength

