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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Dynamics of Turing and Faraday instabilities in a longitudinally modulated fiber-ring cavity
Abstract:
We experimentally investigate the round-trip-to-round-trip dynamics of the modulation instability spectrum in a passive fiber-ring cavity presenting an inhomogeneous dispersion profile. By implementing a real-time spectroscopy technique, we are able to record successive single-shot spectra, which display the evolution of the system toward a stationary state. We find that the two instability regimes (Turing and Faraday) that compete in this kind of inhomogeneous cavity not only differ by their characteristic frequency but also by their dynamical behavior. The dynamic transition between those two regimes of instability is also presented.
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