Abstract

In standard optical fibers with constant chromatic dispersion, modulational instability (MI) sidebands execute undesirable frequency shifts due to fiber losses. By means of a technique based on average-dispersion-decreasing dispersion-managed fibers, we achieve both complete suppression of the sideband frequency shifts and fine control of the MI frequencies, without any compromise in the MI power gain.

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Suppression of the frequency drift of modulational instability sidebands by means of a fiber system associated with a photon reservoir

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Critical behavior with dramatic enhancement of modulational instability gain in fiber systems with periodic variation dispersion

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