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Phys. Rev. A 80, 043818 (2009) [7 pages]

How to excite a rogue wave

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N. Akhmediev1, J. M. Soto-Crespo2, and A. Ankiewicz1
1Optical Sciences Group, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia
2Instituto de Óptica, CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain

Received 30 July 2009; published 19 October 2009

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We propose initial conditions that could facilitate the excitation of rogue waves. Understanding the initial conditions that foster rogue waves could be useful both in attempts to avoid them by seafarers and in generating highly energetic pulses in optical fibers.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043818
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043818
PACS:
42.81.Dp, 42.65.Sf, 47.20.Ky