How to excite a rogue wave

Akhmediev, Nail; Soto-Crespo, J.M.; Ankiewicz, Adrian

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How to excite a rogue wave

Date

2009

Authors

Akhmediev, Nail

Soto-Crespo, J.M.

Ankiewicz, Adrian

Publisher

American Physical Society

Abstract

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.