Abstract
We study theoretically and experimentally the so-called modulational instability laser and show that the passive mode-locking mechanism that is at play in this laser relies on a dissipative four-wave mixing process leading to dark pulse train generation in the normal dispersion regime.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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