@article{c3f15554403d49f68d2000756e684917,
title = "Versatile supercontinuum generation in parabolic multimode optical fibers",
abstract = "We demonstrate that the pump's spatial input profile can provide additional degrees of freedom in tailoring at will the nonlinear dynamics and the ensuing spectral content of supercontinuum generation in highly multimoded optical fibers. Experiments and simulations carried out at 1550 nm indicate that the modal composition of the input beam can substantially alter the soliton fission process as well as the resulting Raman and dispersive wave generation that eventually lead to supercontinuum in such a multimode environment. Given the multitude of conceivable initial conditions, our results suggest that it is possible to pre-engineer the supercontinuum spectral content in a versatile manner.",
author = "Eftekhar, {M. A.} and Wright, {L. G.} and Mills, {M. S.} and M. Kolesik and {Amezcua Correa}, R. and Wise, {F. W.} and Christodoulides, {D. N.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) (MURI N00014-13-1-0649), HEL-JTO (W911NF-12-1-0450), Army Research Office (ARO) (W911NF-12-1-0450) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) FA9550-15-10041.This work was also partially funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (grant: NPRP 9-020-1-006) This work acknowledges the support of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) [36], which is supported by National Science Foundation grant number ACI-1053575. The University of Central Florida Stokes Advanced Research Computing Center (UCF ARCC) was also partially used to perform simulations. LGW acknowledges partial support from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Optical Society of America.",
year = "2017",
month = apr,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1364/OE.25.009078",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "25",
pages = "9078--9087",
journal = "Optics Express",
issn = "1094-4087",
publisher = "The Optical Society",
number = "8",
}