Modulational instability in a fiber soliton ring laser induced by periodic dispersion variation
Abstract
Modulational instability with sideband generation is experimentally observed in a passively mode-locked fiber soliton ring laser. We show numerically that this modulational instability is induced by the periodic dispersion variation experienced by light circulating in the laser cavity. Modulational instability caused by cross-phase-modulation is also observed in the laser and confirmed numerically.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- February 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.61.023804
- Bibcode:
- 2000PhRvA..61b3804T
- Keywords:
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- 42.55.Wd;
- 42.65.Sf;
- 42.65.Tg;
- 42.81.Dp;
- Fiber lasers;
- Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems;
- optical instabilities optical chaos and complexity and optical spatio-temporal dynamics;
- Optical solitons;
- nonlinear guided waves;
- Propagation scattering and losses;
- solitons