Universal triangular spectra in parametrically-driven systems

Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz*, J. M. Soto-Crespo, John M. Dudley

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    Abstract

    We analyse triangular spectra that appear in many branches of physics that deal with parametrically-driven systems, and give a simple theoretical analysis for them in terms of the nonlinear dynamics of multimode fields. Such spectra appear universally as a result of an exponential decay of the nonlinearly generated frequency modes of many parametrically-driven systems, and have been confirmed by recent observations of noise-driven supercontinuum generation in optical fibers. We demonstrate that such universal triangular spectra (UTS) can be well-described by the analytical expressions for the spectra of Akhmediev breather (AB) solutions at the point of maximal compression.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)775-779
    Number of pages5
    JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
    Volume375
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 17 Jan 2011

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