Analytical model and experimental verification of the critical power for modulation instability in optical fibers

Alem, Mehdi; Soto, Marcelo A.; Thevenaz, Luc

Abstract

Modulation instability is thoroughly investigated and a simple analytical model for its power critically modifying the wave properties in terms of system parameters is derived and experimentally validated. The differences on the modulation instability gain spectrum in lossless and lossy optical fibers are analyzed based on theoretical models and numerical simulations. In particular the impact of background noise on the behavior of modulation instability is studied analytically and verified by measurements and simulations. The proposed analytical model is experimentally validated by monitoring the wave propagation along an optical fiber using a Brillouin optical time-domain analyzer. This way, the evolution of the optical signal traveling through optical fibers, especially, the pump depletion and the recurrence phenomenon are investigated. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America

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Título según WOS: ID WOS:000366611500021 Not found in local WOS DB
Título de la Revista: OPTICS EXPRESS
Volumen: 23
Número: 23
Editorial: OPTICAL SOC AMER
Fecha de publicación: 2015
Página de inicio: 29514
Página final: 29532
DOI:

10.1364/OE.23.029514

Notas: ISI