Narrowband and ultra-wideband modulation instability in nonlinear metamaterial waveguides
Narrowband and ultra-wideband modulation instability in nonlinear metamaterial waveguides
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2020-11-01
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Linale, N.
Fierens, Pablo Ignacio
Hernández, Santiago M.
Bonetti, Juan I.
Grosz, Diego
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"Waveguides based on metamaterials may exhibit strongly frequency-dependent nonlinearities. In this work, we focus on the phenomenon of modulation instability in this type of waveguide, departing from a new modeling equation that ensures strict conservation of both the energy and photon number of the parametric process. In particular, we analyse the case of a waveguide with a linearly frequency-dependent nonlinear coefficient, revealing unique features such as narrowband and ultra-wideband gain spectra and the suppression of the power cutoff giving rise to an ever-growing MI gain. These markedly distinct regimes are enabled by self-steepening (SS) and manifest themselves depending upon the magnitude and sign of the SS parameter.We believe these findings to be most relevant in the context of mid-IR supercontinuum sources."