Collective modulation instability of multiple four-wave mixing
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Measurement of Coherence Decay in GaMnAs Using Femtosecond Four-wave Mixing
Published on: December 3, 2013
Andrea Armaroli1, Stefano Trillo
1ENDIF, Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, via Saragat 1, 44122 Ferrara, Italy. andrea.armaroli@unife.it
Abstract:
We investigate the modulation instability of multiple four-wave mixing arising from a dual-frequency pump in a single-mode fiber or waveguide. By applying the Floquet theory on account of the periodic nature of four-wave mixing, we reveal a collective type of instability occurring in the anomalous dispersion regime. Our interpretation of the linear stability analysis is validated by the numerical solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
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