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Turning the tables on nonlinearity

The discovery of a new nonlinear light propagation regime in optical fibres paves the way to spectrally brighter lasers and control of signal distortion in communication links.

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Figure 1: Four-wave mixing in optical fibres.

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Radic, S. Turning the tables on nonlinearity. Nature Photon 9, 556–558 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.163

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