Observation of a novel large-signal four-photon instability in optical wave mixing

Year: 1998

Authors: Millot G., Seve E., Wabnitz S., Trillo S.

Autors Affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique, Universite de Bourgogne, Avenue A. Savary, B.P. n. 400, Dijon, 21011, France; Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Via B. Castiglione 59, Rome, 00142, Italy

Abstract: Experiments of four-photon frequency conversion in a birefringent optical fiber reveal, besides the usual small-signal parametric modulational instability, a novel large-signal instability. The main observed physical signatures of this instability are the peak stimulated conversion at signal detunings outside the parametric gain bandwidth and a signal power threshold. The transition between the two instability domains is controlled by the wavelength separation between pump and probe beams.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 80 (3)      Pages from: 504  to: 507

KeyWords: Modulational instability; Birefringent fibers
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.504

Citations: 12
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