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Spontaneous modulation instability in noninstantaneous self-defocusing medium with a coherent feedback

✍ Scribed by Wen-Han Chu; Ming-Feng Shih


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
505 KB
Volume
282
Category
Article
ISSN
0030-4018

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✦ Synopsis


We find theoretically that the optical modulation instability can spontaneously happen in the noninstantaneous defocusing medium when there is a coherent feedback. It requires both above-threshold gain and phase matching for the instability to happen, very similar to the oscillation condition of a laser. The theoretical result is in good agreement with our experimental observation.