Modulational instability oscillation in nonlinear dispersive ring cavity
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 38 (10) , 5193-5196
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.38.5193
Abstract
Periodic-intensity self-oscillation caused by modulational instability is observed for the first time in a nonlinear dispersive fiber ring cavity. The oscillation stops immediately when the phase coherence is disturbed by cavity detuning. It is found that a noninstantaneous response of the nonlinear index competes with the modulational instability gain and produces asymmetrical Stokes sidebands.Keywords
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