Abstract
Modulational instability (MI) in an optical fiber leads to the spontaneous break-up of a continuous wave (cw) excitation into a periodic train of ultrashort pulses, provided that the dispersion of the fiber is anomalous and the cw input power sufficiently high [1,2].
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