SIDE-BAND INSTABILITY INDUCED BY PERIODIC POWER VARIATION IN LONG-DISTANCE FIBER LINKS

被引:124
作者
MATERA, F
MECOZZI, A
ROMAGNOLI, M
SETTEMBRE, M
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[1] Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, 00142
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10.1364/OL.18.001499
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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Periodically spaced amplifiers along a transoceanic cable provide the phase-matching condition for a four-wave mixing process owing to Kerr nonlinearity. A new kind of sideband instability shows up in both positive and negative dispersion regimes that is similar to modulation instability. A comparison with the sideband instability that was recently discovered for solitons is carried out.
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页码:1499 / 1501
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