Higher-order modulation instability in fiber optics

Author

Erkintalo, M. ; Hammani, K. ; Kibler, B. ; Finot, C. ; Akhmediev, N. ; Dudley, J.M. ; Genty, G.

Author_Institution

Phys. Dept., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

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.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical fibres; optical modulation; Darboux transformation; elementary instabilities; fiber optics; four-wave mixing; higher-order modulation instability; low frequency modulation; nonlinear superposition; Amplitude modulation; Frequency modulation; Harmonic analysis; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optimized production technology; Fiber-optic parametric amplifiers; Four-wave mixing; Modulation instability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253900

Filename

6253900