Self-induced modulational instability laser revisited: normal dispersion and dark-pulse train generation.
We study theoretically and experimentally the so-called self-induced modulational instability laser and show that the passive mode-locking mechanism that is at play in this laser relies on a dissipative four-wave mixing process that leads to generation of a dark-pulse train in the normal-dispersion regime.
Sylvestre
Thibaut
T
Coen
Stéphane
S
Emplit
Philippe
P
Haelterman
Marc
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