Shaping the propagation of light in complex media

H Cao, AP Mosk, S Rotter - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The main obstacle for optical imaging or for sending information through turbid media such
as paint, clouds and biological tissue is the random scattering of light. Owing to its immense …

Multi-pole solitons in an inhomogeneous multi-component nonlinear optical medium

Y Shen, B Tian, TY Zhou, CD Cheng - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
Investigations on nonlinear optics are active, with the applications in the modulators, fiber
lasers, optical sensors, etc. In this paper, we focus our attention on a system for the ultra …

Controlling light propagation in multimode fibers for imaging, spectroscopy, and beyond

H Cao, T Čižmár, S Turtaev, T Tyc… - Advances in Optics and …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Light transport in a highly multimode fiber exhibits complex behavior in space, time,
frequency, and polarization, especially in the presence of mode coupling. The newly …

The bright prospects of optical solitons after 50 years

A Blanco-Redondo, CM de Sterke, C Xu, S Wabnitz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The idea of temporal solitons in optical fibres as a means to compensate for the chromatic
dispersion-induced temporal broadening of pulses via the intensity-dependent refractive …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal mode-locking and dissipative solitons in multimode fiber lasers

B Cao, C Gao, K Liu, X Xiao, C Yang… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Multimode fiber (MMF) lasers are emerging as a remarkable testbed to study nonlinear
spatiotemporal physics with potential applications spanning from high energy pulse …

Broadband control of topological–spectral correlations in space–time beams

M Piccardo, M de Oliveira, VR Policht, M Russo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The synthesis of ultrashort pulses with simultaneously tailored spatial and temporal
properties opens new horizons in multimode photonics, especially when the spatial degree …

All-step-index-fiber spatiotemporally mode-locked laser

C Gao, B Cao, Y Ding, X Xiao, D Yang, H Fei, C Yang… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Spatiotemporal mode-locking (STML) in multi-mode fiber (MMF) lasers has extended the
concept of temporal dissipative solitons into spatiotemporal dissipative solitons. To date, all …

[HTML][HTML] Mode attraction, rejection and control in nonlinear multimode optics

K Ji, I Davidson, J Sahu, DJ Richardson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Novel fundamental notions helping in the interpretation of the complex dynamics of
nonlinear systems are essential to our understanding and ability to exploit them. In this work …

[HTML][HTML] Theory of localization-hindered thermalization in nonlinear multimode photonics

AY Ramos, C Shi, LJ Fernández-Alcázar… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Our society's appetite for ultra-high bandwidth communication networks and high-power
optical sources, together with recent breakthroughs in mode multiplexing/demultiplexing …

[HTML][HTML] Mitigating stimulated Brillouin scattering in multimode fibers with focused output via wavefront shaping

CW Chen, LV Nguyen, K Wisal, S Wei… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The key challenge for high-power delivery through optical fibers is overcoming nonlinear
optical effects. To keep a smooth output beam, most techniques for mitigating optical …