TY - JOUR
T1 - Accelerated nonlinear interactions in graded-index multimode fibers
AU - Eftekhar, M. A.
AU - Sanjabi-Eznaveh, Z.
AU - Lopez-Aviles, H. E.
AU - Benis, S.
AU - Antonio-Lopez, J. E.
AU - Kolesik, M.
AU - Wise, F.
AU - Amezcua-Correa, R.
AU - Christodoulides, D. N.
N1 - Funding Information:
Office of Naval Research (ONR) (MURI N00014-17-1-2588); National Science Foundation (NSF) (ECCS-1711230); HEL-JTO (W911NF-12-1-0450); Army Research Office (ARO) (W911NF-12-1-0450); Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (FA955015-10041); Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) (NPRP9-020-1-006). We would like to thank Dr. Eric Van Stryland and Dr. David Hagan for giving us access to their Lab. facilities. This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant number ACI-1548562.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Multimode optical fibers have recently reemerged as a viable platform for addressing a number of long-standing issues associated with information bandwidth requirements and power-handling capabilities. As shown in recent studies, the complex nature of such heavily multimoded systems can be effectively exploited to observe altogether novel physical effects arising from spatiotemporal and intermodal linear and nonlinear processes. Here, we study for the first time, accelerated nonlinear intermodal interactions in core-diameter decreasing multimode fibers. We demonstrate that in the anomalous dispersion region, this spatiotemporal acceleration can lead to relatively blue-shifted multimode solitons and blue-drifting dispersive wave combs, while in the normal domain, to a notably flat and uniform supercontinuum, extending over 2.5 octaves. Our results pave the way towards a deeper understanding of the physics and complexity of nonlinear, heavily multimoded optical systems, and could lead to highly tunable optical sources with very high spectral densities.
AB - Multimode optical fibers have recently reemerged as a viable platform for addressing a number of long-standing issues associated with information bandwidth requirements and power-handling capabilities. As shown in recent studies, the complex nature of such heavily multimoded systems can be effectively exploited to observe altogether novel physical effects arising from spatiotemporal and intermodal linear and nonlinear processes. Here, we study for the first time, accelerated nonlinear intermodal interactions in core-diameter decreasing multimode fibers. We demonstrate that in the anomalous dispersion region, this spatiotemporal acceleration can lead to relatively blue-shifted multimode solitons and blue-drifting dispersive wave combs, while in the normal domain, to a notably flat and uniform supercontinuum, extending over 2.5 octaves. Our results pave the way towards a deeper understanding of the physics and complexity of nonlinear, heavily multimoded optical systems, and could lead to highly tunable optical sources with very high spectral densities.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-019-09687-9
DO - 10.1038/s41467-019-09687-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 30967553
AN - SCOPUS:85064087943
VL - 10
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
IS - 1
M1 - 1638
ER -