Extreme Events in Resonant Radiation from Three-dimensional Light Bullets
Optics
2014-09-17 v1
Abstract
We report measurements that show extreme events in the statistics of resonant radiation emitted from spatiotemporal light bullets. We trace the origin of these extreme events back to instabilities leading to steep gradients in the temporal profile of the intense light bullet that occur during the initial collapse dynamics. Numerical simulations reproduce the extreme valued statistics of the resonant radiation which are found to be intrinsically linked to the simultaneous occurrence of both temporal and spatial self-focusing dynamics. Small fluctuations in both the input energy and in the spatial phase curvature explain the observed extreme behaviour.
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@article{arxiv.1404.0937,
title = {Extreme Events in Resonant Radiation from Three-dimensional Light Bullets},
author = {Thomas Roger and Donatas Majus and Gintaras Tamosauskas and Paris Panagiotopoulos and Miroslav Kolesik and Goery Genty and Audrius Dubietis and Daniele Faccio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0937},
year = {2014}
}
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5 pages, 5 figures, submitted