2015/09/30 by Christopher J. Gibson, Alison M. Yao, Gian‐Luca Oppo +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Amplitude #Annihilation #Classical mechanics #Mechanics #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Nonlinear system #Optical vortex #Optics #Phase (matter) #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Rogue wave #Turbulence #Vortex #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.116.043903
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 043903 (2016) · 5 pages, 7 figures
openalex publication_date 2016/01/27 · arxiv created 2016/02/11 · arxiv updated 2016/02/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present a spatiotemporal mechanism for producing 2D optical rogue waves in the presence of a turbulent state with creation, interaction, and annihilation of optical vortices. Spatially periodic structures with bound phase lose stability to phase unbound turbulent states in complex Ginzburg-Landau and Swift-Hohenberg models with external driving. When the pumping is high and the external driving is low, synchronized oscillations are unstable and lead to spatiotemporal vortex-mediated turbulence with high excursions in amplitude. Nonlinear amplification leads to rogue waves close to turbulent optical vortices, where the amplitude tends to zero, and to probability density functions (PDFs) with long tails typical of extreme optical events.