Abstract
We show that, in fiber-optic four-wave mixing based wavelength conversion, modulational instability compensates for the flatness degradation of the conversion efficiency due to birefringence. A 76nm ultrabroadband 1dB highly-flattened wavelength conversion with conversion efficiency up to-4dB is demonstrated.
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