“…[5][6][7][8]. Similar phenomena are also found in other branches of physics, such as Bose-Einstein condensates with timevarying external fields [9,10].The occurrence of these effects in micro-structured fibers, which permit to observe them on a shorter scale and explore a wide range of input power and wavelength, have been recently reported, see [11,12], where a photonic-crystal fiber (PCF, [13]) of varying diameter is used. By operating near the zero-dispersion point (ZDP) [14], the main contribution comes from the variation of the GVD, from which the name dispersion-oscillating * andrea.armaroli@mpl.mpg.de fibers (DOFs); partial coherence and the effects of large GVD swings [15,16] were considered.The conventional explanation is in term of a long grating assisted quasi-phase matching (QPM) process [4,7,8,11,12], but it was verified in [17] that this approximation is inaccurate if the period of parameter variation is comparable with the length scale at which the nonlinear processes occur.…”