Modulation instability (MI) effects are analyzed in the context of WDM optical communication systems. We show how the interplay between four-wave mixing and modulation instability results in a modulation of the channel power as a function of the channel spacing as well as the propagated distance. This modulation can cause severe power penalties.
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Grosz et al. (1998) studied this question.