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Impact of the third-order dispersion on the modulation instability gain of pulsed signals
A Mussot1, A Kudlinski, E Louvergneaux
1Université Lille 1, Laboratoire PhLAM, UMR CNRS 8523, IRCICA, FR CNRS 3024,59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. mussot@phlam.univ-lille1.fr
Abstract:
We demonstrate that modulation instability gain of time-localized signals (i.e., pulsed signals) depends strongly on the third-order dispersion, contrary to the well-known case of time-extended signals (cw signals). This surprising contribution of an odd dispersion term on this four-photon-mixing process is established analytically and confirmed by numerical simulations.
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