Continuous-wave ultrahigh-repetition-rate pulse-train generation through modulational instability in a passive fiber cavity
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 26 (1) , 39-41
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.26.000039
Abstract
Thanks to a passive cavity configuration, modulational instability in fibers is successfully observed, for the first time to our knowledge, in the continuous-wave regime. Our technique provides a new means of generating all-optically ultrahigh-repetition-rate pulse trains and opens up new possibilities for the fundamental study of modulational instability and related phenomena.Keywords
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