Inhibition of modulation instability in lasers by noise

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1326-1328

  Gordon, Ariel ^a   Fischer, Baruch ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MODULATION INSTABILITY;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0042743841     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.001326     Document Type: Article

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16. m] is the rate at which the noise supplies energy to the mth mode, which is (εW)/(2N), the power of the noise. The summation on m adds a factor of N.
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