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Dissipative Rogue Waves

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In this chapter, the history and main characteristics of rogue waves in the oceans are introduced. Due to phenomenological and physical analogies between extreme events in optics and hydrodynamics, the concept of optical rogue waves is extended into optics, associated with a long-tailed intensity histogram in the long-wavelength range of fiber optical supercontinuum spectra. Then, we discuss the real-time techniques for observing optical rogue waves. Namely, the well-known dispersive-Fourier-transform-based ultrafast spectroscopy and the time magnifier based on space-time duality. Further, the optical rogue waves in dissipative systems that often referred as open systems far away from the thermodynamic equilibrium, are reviewed briefly, including ultrafast lasers, microresonators, extended systems, and optical polarization rogue waves. These dissipative optical systems can be described by the Ginzburg-Landau equations, and various dynamical processes of fluctuation, pulsing, bifurcation, turbulence, and chaos are expected to be observed. Finally, two possible interpretations, and the predictabilities of dissipative rogue waves are also discussed.

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Gao, L. (2022). Dissipative Rogue Waves. In: Ferreira, M.F.S. (eds) Dissipative Optical Solitons. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97493-0_16

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