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