• DocumentCode
    1680316
  • Title

    How can modulational instability generate solitons?

  • Author

    Mahnke, Ch ; Mitschke, F.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. fur Phys., Univ. Rostock, Rostock, Germany
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Modulational instability converts cw light in a fiber into a train of pulses. We obtain its scattering eigenvalue spectrum and show that the pulses are not solitons. Raman shift can convert them to solitons, though.
  • Keywords
    Raman spectra; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; Raman shift; cw light; modulational instability; optical fiber; pulse train; scattering eigenvalue spectrum; soliton generation; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical scattering; Optical solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326667
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1680316