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Higher-order modulation instability in fiber optics
Kamal HammaniChristophe FinotJohn M. DudleyGoëry GentyMiro ErkintaloBertrand KiblerNail Akhmedievsubject
PhysicsOptical fiberbusiness.industryInstabilitylaw.inventionPulse (physics)Amplitude modulationFour-wave mixingOpticsClassical mechanicsModulationlawbusinessHigher-order modulationFrequency modulationdescription
We report on analytical, numerical and experimental studies of higher-order modulation instability in fiber optics. This new form of instability arises from the nonlinear superposition of elementary instabilities and manifests as complex, yet deterministic temporal pulse break-up dynamics. We use the Darboux transformation to analytically describe the process and compare with experiments. In particular, we show how suitably low frequency modulation on a continuous wave field allows for the excitation of higher-order modulation instability through cascaded four-wave mixing.
year | journal | country | edition | language |
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2012-07-01 | 2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) |