Soliton generation and rogue-wave-like behavior through fourth-order scalar modulation instability

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 205-212

  Hammani, Kamal ^a   Finot, Christophe ^a   Kibler, Bertrand ^a   Millot, Guy ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE CARNOT DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

fiber nonlinear optics; Four wave mixing; solitons

Indexed keywords

FIBER NONLINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CONVERSION PROCESS; INTENSITY HISTOGRAMS; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTER; SCALAR MODULATION; SOLITON GENERATION; SPECTRAL EXPANSIONS; STOKES AND ANTI-STOKES;

MODULATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 77955580643     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2009.2032150     Document Type: Article

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