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:: Friday, December 21, 2007 ::

Noise Might Cause Huge Ocean Waves

Noise might cause huge ocean waves - physicsworld.com
"Every so often mariners report the sighting of a huge wave towering up to 30 m above the regular swells of the ocean surface. No one is sure why these rogue waves form, but now physicists in the US and Germany have managed to produce equivalent optical rogue waves by launching laser pulses into photonic-crystal fibres. Having performed computer simulations of the optical system, the researchers suggest that optical rogue waves, and therefore oceanic rogue waves, are seeded by noise."

Labels: Acoustics, Physics

:: Dan 21.12.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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