Observation of modulational instability in optical fibers
- 13 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 56 (2) , 135-138
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.135
Abstract
We report the first observation of the modulational instability of light waves in dielectric material using a neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser operated at 1.319 μm and single-mode optical fibers with anomalous group-velocity dispersion. The observed results are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions. The relationship between the modulation instability and parametric four-wave mixing and the interplay with stimulated Raman and Brillouin scatterings are also presented.Keywords
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