Nano-structured optical fibers made of glass-ceramics, and phase separated and metallic particle-containing glasses

A Veber, Z Lu, M Vermillac, F Pigeonneau, W Blanc… - Fibers, 2019 - mdpi.com
For years, scientists have been looking for different techniques to make glasses perfect: fully
amorphous and ideally homogeneous. Meanwhile, recent advances in the development of …

Self-organized instability in graded-index multimode fibres

LG Wright, Z Liu, DA Nolan, MJ Li… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Multimode fibres (MMFs) are attracting interest in the study of spatiotemporal dynamics as
well as in the context of ultrafast fibre sources, imaging and telecommunications. This …

Multimode nonlinear fiber optics: massively parallel numerical solver, tutorial, and outlook

LG Wright, ZM Ziegler, PM Lushnikov… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building on the scientific understanding and technological infrastructure of single-mode
fibers, multimode fibers are being explored as a means of adding new degrees of freedom to …

Non-Hermitian disorder in two-dimensional optical lattices

AF Tzortzakakis, KG Makris, EN Economou - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
In this paper, we study the properties of two-dimensional lattices in the presence of non-
Hermitian disorder. In the context of coupled mode theory, we consider random gain-loss …

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 …

Random lasing in an Anderson localizing optical fiber

B Abaie, E Mobini, S Karbasi, T Hawkins… - Light: Science & …, 2017 - nature.com
A directional random laser mediated by transverse Anderson localization in a disordered
glass optical fiber is reported. Previous demonstrations of random lasers have found limited …

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 …

Brightness enhancement in random Raman fiber laser based on a graded-index fiber with high-power multimode pumping

Y Chen, C Fan, T Yao, H Xiao, J Leng, P Zhou… - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A brightness-enhanced random Raman fiber laser (RRFL) with maximum power of 306 W at
1120 nm is demonstrated. A half-open cavity is built based on a graded-index (GRIN) …

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 …

Glass: The carrier of light—Part II—A brief look into the future of optical fiber

J Ballato, PD Dragic - International Journal of Applied Glass …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Glass optical fibers have reached a scale and commercial maturity that few, if any, other
material and form can claim. Furthermore, optical fibers not only enable a remarkably broad …