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Photonics: Rogue waves surface in light
Dong-Il Yeom1 & Benjamin J. Eggleton1
Abstract
How do the freak waves that haunt seafarers' nightmares arise? We don't know, is the short answer — but the discovery of a similar phenomenon in optical waves might assist in getting to the bottom of the mystery.
Oceanic rogue waves — monstrous sea waves that form spontaneously and can reach up to 30 metres in height1, 2 — have been held responsible for marine misfortunes ranging from the sudden sinking of seagoing ships to damage to oil platforms. They are not just the stuff of maritime folklore (Fig. 1
- Dong-Il Yeom and Benjamin J. Eggleton are in the Centre for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
Email: yeom@physics.usyd.edu.au
Email: egg@physics.usyd.edu.au
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