Engineered disorder in photonics

S Yu, CW Qiu, Y Chong, S Torquato, N Park - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is
ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network …

[HTML][HTML] Review of a Decade of research on disordered Anderson localizing optical fibers

A Mafi, J Ballato - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Nearly a decade ago, transverse Anderson localization was observed for the first time in an
optical fiber with a random transverse refractive index profile. This started the development …

[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 …

Optical rogue wave in random fiber laser

J Xu, J Wu, J Ye, J Song, B Yao, H Zhang… - Photonics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The famous demonstration of optical rogue waves (RWs), a powerful tool to reveal the
fundamental physics in different laser scenarios, opened a flourishing time for temporal …

[HTML][HTML] Anderson localization in synthetic photonic lattices

ID Vatnik, A Tikan, G Onishchukov, DV Churkin… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Synthetic photonic lattices provide unique capabilities to realize theoretical concepts
emerging in different fields of wave physics via the utilization of powerful photonic …

Deep learning imaging through fully-flexible glass-air disordered fiber

J Zhao, Y Sun, Z Zhu, JE Antonio-Lopez… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a fully flexible, artifact-free, and lensless fiber-based imaging system. For
the first time, this system combines image reconstruction by a trained deep neural network …

[HTML][HTML] Image transport through meter-long randomly disordered silica-air optical fiber

J Zhao, JEA Lopez, Z Zhu, D Zheng, S Pang… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We present a randomly disordered silica-air optical fiber featuring a 28.5% air filling fraction
in the structured region, and low attenuation below 1 dB per meter at visible wavelengths …

Extended depth of field imaging through multicore optical fibers

A Orth, M Ploschner, IS Maksymov, BC Gibson - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Compact microendoscopes use multicore optical fibers (MOFs) to visualize hard-to-reach
regions of the body. These devices typically have a large numerical aperture (NA) and are …

Disordered Anderson localization optical fibers for image transport—a review

A Mafi, J Ballato, KW Koch… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disordered optical fibers show novel waveguiding properties, enabled by the transverse
Anderson localization of light, and are used for image transport. The strong transverse …

[HTML][HTML] Deep-learning cell imaging through Anderson localizing optical fiber

J Zhao, Y Sun, H Zhu, Z Zhu… - Advanced …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We demonstrate a deep-learning-based fiber imaging system that can transfer real-time
artifact-free cell images through a meter-long Anderson localizing optical fiber. The cell …