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Modal phase-locking in multimode nonlinear optical fibers. / Mangini, Fabio; Ferraro, Mario; Sun, Yifan et al.
In: Optics Letters, Vol. 48, No. 14, 15.07.2023, p. 3677-3680.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Modal phase-locking in multimode nonlinear optical fibers
AU - Mangini, Fabio
AU - Ferraro, Mario
AU - Sun, Yifan
AU - Gervaziev, Mikhail
AU - Parra-Rivas, Pedro
AU - Kharenko, Denis S.
AU - Couderc, Vincent
AU - Wabnitz, Stefan
N1 - H2020 European Research Council (740355); Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (R18SPB8227); Sapienza Università di Roma (AR2221815ED243A0, RG12117A84DA7437); H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (101023717, 101064614, 713694); Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-10-LABX-0074-01, ANR-18-CE080016-01); RSF (21-42-00019). We thank T. Hansson and R. Ferraro for fruitful discussions. Публикация для корректировки.
PY - 2023/7/15
Y1 - 2023/7/15
N2 - Spatial beam self-cleaning, a manifestation of the Kerr effect in graded-index multimode fibers, involves a nonlinear transfer of power among modes, which leads to robust bell-shaped output beams. The resulting mode power distribution can be described by statistical mechanics arguments. Although the spatial coherence of the output beam was experimentally demonstrated, there is no direct study of modal phase evolutions. Based on a holographic mode decomposition method, we reveal that nonlinear spatial phase-locking occurs between the fundamental and its neighboring low-order modes, in agreement with theoretical predictions. As such, our results dispel the current belief that the spatial beam self-cleaning effect is the mere result of a wave thermalization process.
AB - Spatial beam self-cleaning, a manifestation of the Kerr effect in graded-index multimode fibers, involves a nonlinear transfer of power among modes, which leads to robust bell-shaped output beams. The resulting mode power distribution can be described by statistical mechanics arguments. Although the spatial coherence of the output beam was experimentally demonstrated, there is no direct study of modal phase evolutions. Based on a holographic mode decomposition method, we reveal that nonlinear spatial phase-locking occurs between the fundamental and its neighboring low-order modes, in agreement with theoretical predictions. As such, our results dispel the current belief that the spatial beam self-cleaning effect is the mere result of a wave thermalization process.
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U2 - 10.1364/ol.494543
DO - 10.1364/ol.494543
M3 - Article
C2 - 37450723
VL - 48
SP - 3677
EP - 3680
JO - Optics Letters
JF - Optics Letters
SN - 0146-9592
IS - 14
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