• DocumentCode
    2883405
  • Title

    From spatio-temporal to temporal modulational instability

  • Author

    Salerno, Domenico ; Di Trapani, Paolo ; Minardi, Stefano ; Jenkins, Stewart ; Kennedy, T. A Brian ; Valiulis, Gintaras ; Tamosauskas, Gintaras

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Math., Insubria Univ., Como, Italy
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    42
  • Abstract
    We study the impact of the beam diameter on the spectrum of the instability in second harmonic generation, and we report direct evidence of a quantum origin of the instability of a spatial soliton.
  • Keywords
    optical harmonic generation; optical modulation; optical solitons; quantum optics; beam diameter; instability spectrum; modulational instability; quantum origin; second harmonic generation; spatial soliton; spatiotemporal modulation; temporal modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical harmonic generation; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Optical solitons; Physics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8973-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567214
  • Filename
    1567214