We report the direct observation of the onset of turbulence in propagating one-dimensional optical waves. The transition occurs as the disordered hosting material passes from being linear to one with extreme nonlinearity. As the response grows, increased wave interaction causes a modulational unstable quasihomogeneous flow to be superseded by a chaotic and spatially incoherent one. Statistical analysis of high-resolution wave behavior in the turbulent regime unveils the emergence of concomitant rogue waves. The transition, observed in a photorefractive ferroelectric crystal, introduces a new and rich experimental setting for the study of optical wave turbulence and information transport in conditions dominated by large fluctuations and extreme nonlinearity.
%0 Journal Article
%1 PhysRevLett.117.183902
%A Pierangeli, D.
%A Di Mei, F.
%A Di Domenico, G.
%A Agranat, A. J.
%A Conti, C.
%A DelRe, E.
%D 2016
%I American Physical Society
%J Phys. Rev. Lett.
%K myown
%N 18
%P 183902
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.183902
%T Turbulent Transitions in Optical Wave Propagation
%U http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.183902
%V 117
%X We report the direct observation of the onset of turbulence in propagating one-dimensional optical waves. The transition occurs as the disordered hosting material passes from being linear to one with extreme nonlinearity. As the response grows, increased wave interaction causes a modulational unstable quasihomogeneous flow to be superseded by a chaotic and spatially incoherent one. Statistical analysis of high-resolution wave behavior in the turbulent regime unveils the emergence of concomitant rogue waves. The transition, observed in a photorefractive ferroelectric crystal, introduces a new and rich experimental setting for the study of optical wave turbulence and information transport in conditions dominated by large fluctuations and extreme nonlinearity.
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abstract = {We report the direct observation of the onset of turbulence in propagating one-dimensional optical waves. The transition occurs as the disordered hosting material passes from being linear to one with extreme nonlinearity. As the response grows, increased wave interaction causes a modulational unstable quasihomogeneous flow to be superseded by a chaotic and spatially incoherent one. Statistical analysis of high-resolution wave behavior in the turbulent regime unveils the emergence of concomitant rogue waves. The transition, observed in a photorefractive ferroelectric crystal, introduces a new and rich experimental setting for the study of optical wave turbulence and information transport in conditions dominated by large fluctuations and extreme nonlinearity.},
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author = {Pierangeli, D. and Di Mei, F. and Di Domenico, G. and Agranat, A. J. and Conti, C. and DelRe, E.},
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title = {Turbulent Transitions in Optical Wave Propagation},
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