In this review we present recent theoretical and experimental progress on modulation
instability and parametric amplification processes in dispersion oscillating fibers. These …

We review polarization stabilization techniques based on the polarization attraction effect in
low-birefringence fibers. Polarization attraction or pulling may be based on cross …

We report the experimental demonstration of a modulation instability (MI) process assisted
by a periodic dispersion modulation in an optical fiber. We observe the spontaneous growth …

The dynamical Casimir effect is the generation of pairs of real particles or photons from the
vacuum as a result of a non-adiabatic change of a system parameter or boundary condition …

We show that the use of a dispersion oscillating fiber in passive cavities significantly extends
the modulational instability to novel high-frequency bands, which also destabilizes the …

We present a theoretical and numerical study of light propagation in graded-index (GRIN)
multimode fibers where the core diameter has been periodically modulated along the …

A simple analytical model is developed to analyze and explain the complex dynamics of the
multipeak modulation instability spectrum observed in dispersion oscillating optical fibers [M …

We experimentally study the dynamics of the generation of multiple sidebands by means of
a quasi-phase-matched four-wave mixing (FWM) process occurring in a dispersion …

We show that the nonlinear stage of modulational instability induced by parametric driving in
the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation can be accurately described by combining …

We investigate modulational instability in inhomogeneous passive cavities modeled by the
Ikeda map. The cavity boundary conditions and the modulation of the fiber dispersion force …