title: Impact of the third-order dispersion on the modulation instability gain of pulsed signals.
abstract: We demonstrate that modulation instability gain of time-localized signals (i.e., pulsed signals) depends strongly on the third-order dispersion, contrary to the well-known case of time-extended signals (cw signals). This surprising contribution of an odd dispersion term on this four-photon-mixing process is established analytically and confirmed by numerical simulations.
authors.affiliation: Université Lille 1, Laboratoire PhLAM, UMR CNRS 8523, IRCICA, FR CNRS 3024,59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. mussot@phlam.univ-lille1.fr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mussot
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kudlinski
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Louvergneaux
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kolobov
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taki