Nonlinear polarization effects in optical fibers: polarization attraction and modulation instability

G Millot, S Wabnitz - Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We review polarization stabilization techniques based on the polarization attraction effect in
low-birefringence fibers. Polarization attraction or pulling may be based on cross …

[HTML][HTML] Instability and noise-induced thermalization of Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

S Wabnitz, B Wetzel - Physics Letters A, 2014 - Elsevier
We investigate the spontaneous growth of noise that accompanies the nonlinear evolution of
seeded modulation instability into Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence. Results from the Floquet …

Flat-top soliton frequency comb generation through intra-cavity dispersion engineering in a brillouin laser cavity

X Zhang, Z Jia, Y Huang, J Wu, T Wang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dissipative Kerr cavity soliton and optical frequency comb (OFC) can be generated in fiber
cavities or microresonators with anomalous group velocity dispersion (GVD), which has …

Cross-phase modulation induced microcomb generation in the normal-dispersion region

B Yang, Y Lu, S Li, X Zheng, X Xue - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Microcomb generation in the normal-dispersion region usually requires specially designed
microresonators with mode interactions, increasing the complexity of device design and …

Modulation instability in a triangular three-core coupler with a negative-index material channel

AKS Ali, K Nithyanandan, K Porsezian… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A theoretical investigation of the modulation instability (MI) in the three core triangular
oppositely directed coupler with negative index material channel is presented. This class of …

Modulation instability in noninstantaneous Kerr media with walk-off and cross-phase modulation for mixed group-velocity-dispersion regimes

A Canabarro, B Santos, B de Lima Bernardo, AL Moura… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
Taking into account relaxing Kerr nonlinearity and walk-off effects, the conditions and gain
spectra of cross-phase modulation-induced modulational instability (XPM-MI) of two …

Baseband modulational instability and interacting localized mixed waves in coherently coupled optical media

E Kengne, A Lakhssassi, WM Liu - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
We consider a coherently coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations (model equations) that
describe interacting localized waves in coherently coupled optical media. The baseband …

[HTML][HTML] Coupled wave instability in pure-quartic dispersive and noninstantaneous Kerr media in presence of walk-off

CB Tabi, H Tagwo, CGL Tiofack, SS Veni, TC Kofané - Physics Letters A, 2025 - Elsevier
The letter explores modulational instability (MI) in birefringent optical media with pure-
quartic dispersion, relaxed Kerr nonlinearity, and walk-off effects. The linear stage of MI is …

Intra-envelope four-wave mixing in optical fibers

EL Bancel, R Santagata, M Conforti, A Mussot - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We report experimentally on the phenomenon of intra-envelope four-wave mixing (FWM) in
optical fibers. We demonstrate that the non-linear interaction between two pulse trains …

Modulation instabilities in equilateral three-core optical fibers

JH Li, H Zhou, KS Chiang, SR Xiao - JOSA B, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Modulation instabilities (MIs) of the continuous-wave (CW) states in equilateral three-core
fibers are analyzed in detail. For the equilateral-triangle symmetric CW state where the fields …