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Shining light on an old problem

Nature Photonics volume 12, pages 257–259 (2018)Cite this article

The evolution of modulational instability sidebands in an optical fibre are shown to provide new insights into Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou recurrences.

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Fig. 1: Schematic illustrating the original FPU problem.

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    Fabio Biancalana

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