Impact of the modulation instability on supercontinuum generation

Author

Bandelow, U. ; Demircan, A.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2005

fDate

12-17 June 2005

Firstpage

390

Abstract

We make a strong point on the impact of four-wave mixing/modulation instability phenomenon on the generation mechanisms of supercontinuum (SC) in highly nonlinear optical fibers. We demonstrate that the MI can be responsible for ultrabroadband octave-spanning continua for pico- and subpicosecond pulses in the anomalous- as well as in the normal dispersion region. To understand the mechanisms leading to the SC generation, we have solved numerically the one-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation.

Keywords

Schrodinger equation; multiwave mixing; nonlinear differential equations; optical fibre dispersion; supercontinuum generation; four-wave mixing; highly-nonlinear optical fibers; modulation instability phenomena; normal dispersion region; one-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation; supercontinuum generation; ultrabroadband octave-spanning; Four-wave mixing; Frequency; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optimized production technology; Photonic crystal fibers; Pulse generation; Raman scattering; Solitons; Supercontinuum generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8974-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568169

Filename

1568169