https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1410.3071/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17783911urn:hackerpapers:mention:1410.3071:17783911Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:21:34 GMT<p>Some of the most thought-provoking work I came across when I was studying optics (laser physics) is referenced in this paper on &quot;Optical Rogue Waves&quot;: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.3071.pdf Rogue waves, made popular by their often ship-sinking behavior out at sea, are extremely rare and therefore difficult to study by waiting around for them to happen. Here, researchers inject noise into an otherwise stable laser system (recall that light is also a wave) that has some small nonlinear properties and rely on the high rate at which we can generate laser pules to observe rogue waves at a high enough…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1410.3071/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.optics