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most citedReflectionless excitation of arbitrary photonic structures: A general theory

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physics.optics2026

Tailored Speckle Illumination Microscopy with Enhanced Sectioning and Image Quality

SeungYun Han, KyeoReh Lee, Young Seo Kim +6

Optical speckle patterns have been widely used for illumination in computational imaging, optical sectioning microscopy, and super-resolution imaging. However, commonly used speckl…

physics.optics2026

Modeling Light Propagation and Amplification Efficiency in Highly Multimode, Yb-doped Fiber Amplifiers

D. L. Smith, K. Wisal, B. Huang +5

Multimode fibers have been proposed for mitigating nonlinear effects in high-power fiber amplifiers, allowing for significant power scaling. Most previous studies on light propagat…

physics.optics2025

Wavefront shaping enables high-power multimode fiber amplifier with output control

Stefan Rothe, Chun-Wei CHen, Peyman Ahmadi +6

Over the past two decades there have been tremendous advances in high-power fiber lasers, which have provided a powerful tool for science, engineering and defense. A major roadbloc…

physics.optics2024

Output beam shaping of a multimode fiber amplifier

Stefan Rothe, Kabish Wisal, Chun-Wei Chen +4

Multimode fibers provide a promising platform for realizing high-power laser amplifiers with suppressed nonlinearities and instabilities. The potential degradation of optical beam…

physics.optics2024

Optimal input excitations for suppressing nonlinear instabilities in multimode fibers

Kabish Wisal, Chun-Wei Chen, Zeyu Kuang +3

Wavefront shaping has become a powerful tool for manipulating light propagation in various complex media undergoing linear scattering. Controlling nonlinear optical interactions wi…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

Exploiting spacetime symmetry in dissipative nonlinear multimode amplifiers for output control

Chun-Wei Chen, Kabish Wisal, Mathias Fink +2

Time-reversal symmetry enables shaping input waves to control output waves in many linear and nonlinear systems; however energy dissipation violates such symmetry. We consider a sa…

physics.optics2023★ 23 cited

Theory of Transverse Mode Instability in Fiber Amplifiers with Multimode Excitations

Kabish Wisal, Chun-Wei Chen, Hui Cao +1

Transverse Mode Instability (TMI) which results from dynamic nonlinear thermo-optical scattering is the primary limitation to power scaling in high-power fiber lasers and amplifier…

physics.optics2023

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

Chun-Wei Chen, Linh V. Nguyen, Kabish Wisal +9

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 nonli…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Theory of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Fibers for Highly Multimode Excitations

Kabish Wisal, Stephen C. Warren-Smith, Chun-Wei Chen +2

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is an important nonlinear optical effect which can both enable and impede optical processes in guided wave systems. Highly multi-mode excitati…

physics.optics2022★ 22 cited

Suppressing transverse mode instability through multimode excitation in a fiber amplifier

Chun-Wei Chen, Kabish Wisal, Yaniv Eliezer +2

High-power fiber laser amplifiers have enabled an increasing range of applications in industry, medicine and defense. The power scaling for narrow-band amplifiers is currently limi…

physics.optics2020★ 29 cited

Reflectionless excitation of arbitrary photonic structures: A general theory

A. Douglas Stone, William R. Sweeney, Chia Wei Hsu +2

We outline a recently developed theory of impedance-matching, or reflectionless excitation of arbitrary finite photonic structures in any dimension. It describes the necessary and…