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Triggering extreme events at the nanoscale in photonic seas
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dc.contributor.author | Liu, C. | |
dc.contributor.author | van der Wel, R. E. C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rotenberg, N. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuipers, L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Krauss, Thomas Fraser | |
dc.contributor.author | Di Falco, Andrea | |
dc.contributor.author | Fratalocchi, A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-08T23:11:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-08T23:11:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Liu , C , van der Wel , R E C , Rotenberg , N , Kuipers , L , Krauss , T F , Di Falco , A & Fratalocchi , A 2015 , ' Triggering extreme events at the nanoscale in photonic seas ' , Nature Physics , vol. 11 , no. 4 , pp. 358-363 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3263 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1745-2473 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 173609868 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 679aa877-3cea-440b-9c17-4d7b96436903 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84926528057 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-7338-8785/work/57821792 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000352163100020 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/7422 | |
dc.description | This work is supported by Kaust (Award No. CRG-1-2012-FRA-005), by NanoNextNL of the Dutch ministry EL&I and 130 partners and by the EU FET project ‘SPANGL4Q’. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Hurricanes, tsunamis, rogue waves and tornadoes are rare natural phenomena that embed an exceptionally large amount of energy, which appears and quickly disappears in a probabilistic fashion. This makes them difficult to predict and hard to generate on demand. Here we demonstrate that we can trigger the onset of rare events akin to rogue waves controllably, and systematically use their generation to break the diffraction limit of light propagation. We illustrate this phenomenon in the case of a random field, where energy oscillates among incoherent degrees of freedom. Despite the low energy carried by each wave, we illustrate how to control a mechanism of spontaneous synchronization, which constructively builds up the spectral energy available in the whole bandwidth of the field into giant structures, whose statistics is predictable. The larger the frequency bandwidth of the random field, the larger the amplitude of rare events that are built up by this mechanism. Our system is composed of an integrated optical resonator, realized on a photonic crystal chip. Through near-field imaging experiments, we record confined rogue waves characterized by a spatial localization of 206 nm and with an ultrashort duration of 163 fs at a wavelength of 1.55 μm. Such localized energy patterns are formed in a deterministic dielectric structure that does not require nonlinear properties. | |
dc.format.extent | 6 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature Physics | en |
dc.rights | Copyright 2015 The Authors. Subject to terms of reuse of archived manuscripts http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/license.html | en |
dc.subject | QC Physics | en |
dc.subject | NDAS | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QC | en |
dc.title | Triggering extreme events at the nanoscale in photonic seas | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | EPSRC | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | EPSRC | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | EPSRC | en |
dc.description.version | Postprint | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3263 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2015-09-09 | |
dc.identifier.url | https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3263#Sec6 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | EP/I004602/1 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | EP/J01771X/1 | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | EP/J004200/1 | en |
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