Abstract
Modulational instability (MI) in optical fibers is a spontaneous four wave mixing process in which phasematching is automatically achieved through the compensation of chromatic dispersion by Kerr nonlinearity. Self-phase modulation in silica results from a positive Kerr effect and can therefore be compensated only in the anomalous dispersion regime.
© 1999 Optical Society of America
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