Higher-order modulation instability in fiber optics
Date
2012
Authors
Erkintalo, M.
Hammani, K
Kibler, Bertrand
Finot, Christophe
Akhmediev, Nail
Dudley, John M
Genty, Goery
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc)
Abstract
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.
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Keywords: Cascaded four-wave mixing; Continuous Wave; Darboux transformations; Fiber-optic parametric amplifier; In-fiber; Low frequency modulation; Modulation instabilities; New forms; Nonlinear superposition; Numerical and experimental study; Pulse break-up; Four Fiber-optic parametric amplifiers; Four-wave mixing; Modulation instability
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International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks 2012 Proceedings
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Conference paper