Multimode Nonlinear Fiber Optics: Massively Parallel Numerical Solver, Tutorial and Outlook
arXiv:1708.05324 · doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2017.2779749
Abstract
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 optical technologies such as telecommunications, fiber lasers, imaging, and measurement. Here, starting from a baseline of single-mode nonlinear fiber optics, we introduce the growing topic of multimode nonlinear fiber optics. We demonstrate a new numerical solution method for the system of equations that describes nonlinear multimode propagation, the generalized multimode nonlinear Schrodinger equation. This numerical solver is freely available, and includes a number of multimode fiber analysis tools. It features a significant parallel computing speed-up on modern graphical processing units, translating to orders-of-magnitude speed-up over the split-step Fourier method. We demonstrate its use with several examples in graded- and step-index multimode fibers. Finally, we discuss several key open directions and questions, whose answers could have significant scientific and technological impact.
https://github.com/WiseLabAEP/GMMNLSE-Solver-FINAL
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