Rogue Light Waves (IMAGE)

Optica

Rogue Light Waves

Caption

This image shows a "supercontinuum" of light produced within a nonlinear optical fiber. When a supercontinuum is seeded by noise, rather than the short pulses that created this image, the spectral broadening is very chaotic and turbulent and can, in rare cases, generate giant, high-intensity "rogue" light waves that can be used to model oceanic analogs.

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B. Kibler

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