Open AccessExtreme-value statistics in supercontinuum generation by cascaded stimulated Raman scattering
Author(s) -
Antti Aalto,
Goëry Genty,
Juha Toivonen
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.18.001234
Subject(s) - supercontinuum , raman scattering , optics , physics , scattering , forward scatter , dispersion (optics) , gaussian , raman spectroscopy , wavelength , photonic crystal fiber , quantum mechanics
We study experimentally the statistical fluctuations observed in a supercontinuum generated in the normal dispersion regime through cascaded stimulated Raman scattering. Specifically, we show that the statistical distribution of shot-to-shot spectral variations evolves from a quasi-Gaussian in the saturated regime for Stokes orders near the pump to a long-tailed extreme-value distribution for Stokes orders at a large separation from the pump in the unsaturated regime.