Modulational instability in optical fibers with randomly-kicked normal dispersion
Optics
2021-06-02 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We study modulational instability (MI) in optical fibers with random group velocity dispersion (GVD) generated by sharply localized perturbations of a normal GVD fiber that are either randomly or periodically placed along the fiber and that have random strength. This perturbation leads to the appearance of low frequency MI side lobes that grow with the strength of the perturbations, whereas they are faded by randomness in their position. If the random perturbations exhibit a finite average value, they can be compared with periodically perturbed fibers, where Arnold tongues appear. In that case, increased randomness in the strengths of the variations tends to affect the Arnold tongues less than increased randomness in their positions.
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@article{arxiv.2103.02261,
title = {Modulational instability in optical fibers with randomly-kicked normal dispersion},
author = {G. Dujardin and A. Armaroli and S. Rota Nodari and A. Mussot and A. Kudlinski and S. Trillo and M. Conforti and S. De Bievre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02261},
year = {2021}
}