Impact of modulation instability on the supercontinuum generation

Author

Demircan, Ayhan ; Bandelow, Uwe

Author_Institution

Weierstrass Inst. for Appl. Anal. & Stochastics, Berlin, Germany

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

66

Abstract

We report on a numerical study of supercontinuum generation in a single-mode optical fiber. We show that the modulation instability (MI) can be responsible for the generation of ultrabroadband octave-spanning continua for pico- and subpicosecond pulses in the anomalous- as well as in the normal dispersion region. The MI turns out to dominate higher-order effects such as third- and fourth-order dispersion, self-steepening and stimulated Raman scattering.

Keywords

optical fibre dispersion; stimulated Raman scattering; supercontinuum generation; fourth-order dispersion; modulation instability; normal dispersion region; pico-second pulses; self-steepening; single-mode optical fiber; stimulated Raman scattering; subpicosecond pulses; supercontinuum generation; third-order dispersion; ultrabroadband octave-spanning continua generation; Four-wave mixing; Frequency; Intensity modulation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Raman scattering; Supercontinuum generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices, 2005. NUSOD '05. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9149-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2005.1518137

Filename

1518137