%0 Book Section %1 10.1088/978-0-7503-1460-2ch8 %A Pierangeli, Davide %A Conti, Claudio %A DelRe, Eugenio %B Nonlinear Guided Wave Optics %D 2017 %I IOP Publishing %K myown %P 8-1 to 8-21 %R 10.1088/978-0-7503-1460-2ch8 %T Rogue waves in photorefractive media %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-1460-2ch8 %X In this chapter, we discuss rogue waves emerging as light beams that undergo highly-nonlinear regimes of propagation in photorefractive ferroelectric crystals. The interplay between unstable nonlinear wave dynamics and hosting disorder gives rise to a strong turbulent scenario characterized by localized spatial waves of extreme intensity populating long-tailed statistics. We describe basic experiments, with emphasis on the direct study of the role played by saturable nonlinearity, spatial solitons, system dimensionality, and incoherence of the optical field in the appearance and properties of extreme wave events. %@ 978-0-7503-1460-2

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