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Mode-locking via dissipative Faraday instability

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Nikita Tarasov *
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Auro M. Perego
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Dmitry V. Churkin
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Kęstutis Staliūnas
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Sergei K. Turitsyn
DOI:10.1038/ncomms12441delete
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Emergence of coherent structures and patterns at the nonlinear stage of modulation instability of a uniform state is an inherent feature of many biological, physical and engineering systems. There are several well-studied classical modulation instabilities, such as Benjamin-Feir, Turing and Faraday instability, which play a critical role in the self-organization of energy and matter in non-equilibrium physical, chemical and biological systems. Here we experimentally demonstrate the dissipative Faraday instability induced by spatially periodic zig-zag modulation of a dissipative parameter of the system-spectrally dependent losses-achieving generation of temporal patterns and high-harmonic mode-locking in a fibre laser. We demonstrate features of this instability that distinguish it from both the Benjamin-Feir and the purely dispersive Faraday instability. Our results open the possibilities for new designs of mode-locked lasers and can be extended to other fields of physics and engineering.
Keywords:
MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY
PATTERN-FORMATION
WAVE
LASER
PROPAGATION
GENERATION
PULSES
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Aston University
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russian academy of sciences
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