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Modulation instability

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Using a real-time measurement technique to study the single-shot properties of modulation instability, scientists have shown that its initial stochastic nature in an optical system can lead to specific correlation properties in both the spectral and temporal domains.

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Figure 1: The MI process.
Figure 2: Illustration of the correlation regions in the work of Solli et al.

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  1. Arnaud Mussot and Alexandre Kudlinski are in the Physics Laser Atoms and Molécules (PhLAM) Laboratory, University of Lille1/CNRS, UMR8523, Parc de la Haute Borne 50 avenue Halley - BP70478 59658 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France,

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Mussot, A., Kudlinski, A. Loaded dice. Nature Photon 6, 415–416 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.153

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