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Extreme nonlinear optics in optical fibers
Mario Ferraro, Bertrand Kibler, Pierre Béjot +5
This paper reviews the field of extreme nonlinear optics in optical fibers, highlighting key phenomena and advancements. It discusses multiple ionization effects caused by femtosec…
Spatio-temporal equilibrium thermodynamics of guided optical waves at positive and negative temperatures
Lucas Zanaglia, Josselin Garnier, Claire Michel +5
Optical thermalization has been recently studied in the 2D spatial evolution of (quasi-)monochromatic light waves propagating in multimode waveguides. Here, we investigate the spat…
Spatio-spectral light-by-light moulding in multimode fibre
Yago Arosa, Tigran Mansuryan, Arnaud Poisson +8
Controlling complex light waves to achieve desired behaviours or characteristics on demand presents a significant challenge. This task becomes even more complicated when manipulati…
Concatenation of Kerr solitary waves in Ceramic YAG: application to coherent Raman imaging
Nicholas Bagley, Sahar Wehbi, Tigran Mansuryan +12
A coherent concatenation of multiple Townes solitons may lead to a stable infrared and visible broadband filament in ceramic YAG polycrystal. This self-trapped soliton train is lev…
Light tailored by multimode fiber for multiphoton fluorescence microscopy
Raphael Jauberteau, Alessandro Tonello, Yifan Sun +8
We study the diffraction of a particular class of beams, composed only by a combination of azimuthally invariant guided modes of an optical fiber. We demonstrate that such beams ca…
Nonlinear dynamics of dissipative structures in coherently-driven Kerr cavities with a parabolic potential
Yifan Sun, Pedro Parra-Rivas, Mario Ferraro +2
By means of a modified Lugiato-Lefever equation model, we investigate the nonlinear dynamics of dissipative wave structures in coherently-driven Kerr cavities with a parabolic pote…
On spatial beam self-cleaning from the perspective of optical wave thermalization in multimode graded-index fibers
Mario Ferraro, Fabio Mangini, Mario Zitelli +1
The input power-induced transformation of the transverse intensity profile at the output of graded-index multimode optical fibers from speckles into a bell-shaped beam sitting on a…
Spatial Division Multiplexing for Multiplex Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering
T. Mansuryan, A. Tonello, K. Krupa +12
We demonstrate how a narrowband pump and a broadband spectrum can be spatially multiplexed by selective coupling them in two distinct modes of a few-mode microstructure fiber. The…
Robust three-dimensional high-order solitons and breathers in driven dissipative systems: a Kerr cavity realization
Yifan Sun, Pedro Parra-Rivas, Carles Milian +7
We present a general approach to excite robust dissipative three-dimensional and high-order solitons and breathers in passively driven nonlinear cavities. Our findings are illustra…
Spatiotemporal mode decomposition of ultrashort pulses propagating in graded-index multimode fibers
Mario Zitelli, Vincent Couderc, Mario Ferraro +4
We develop a spatiotemporal mode decomposition technique to study the mode power distribution of ultrashort pulses emerging from long spans of graded-index multimode fiber, for dif…
Calorimetry of photon gases in nonlinear multimode optical fibers
M. Ferraro, F. Mangini, F. O. Wu +3
Because of their massless nature, photons do not interact in linear optical media. However, light beam propagation in nonlinear media permits to break this paradigm, and makes it p…
Dissipative Kerr solitons, breathers and chimera states in coherently driven passive cavities with parabolic potential
Yifan Sun, Pedro Parra-Rivas, Mario Ferraro +5
We analyze the stability and dynamics of dissipative Kerr solitons in the presence of a parabolic potential. This potential stabilizes oscillatory and chaotic regimes, favoring the…
X-ray computed -tomography for the characterization of optical fibers
Mario Ferraro, Maria C. Crocco, Fabio Mangini +11
In spite of their ubiquitous applications, the characterization of glass fibers by means of all-optical techniques is still facing some limitations. Recently, X-ray absorption has…
Multimode optical fiber beam-by-beam cleanup
Mario Ferraro, Fabio Mangini, Yann Leventoux +8
We introduce and experimentally demonstrate the concept of all-optical beam switching in graded-index multimode optical fibers. Nonlinear coupling between orthogonally polarized se…
Multimode soliton collisions in graded-index optical fibers
Yifan Sun, Mario Zitelli, Mario Ferraro +3
In this work, we unveil the unique complex dynamics of multimode soliton interactions in graded-index optical fibers through simulations and experiments. By generating two multimod…
Multiphoton ionization of standard optical fibers
M. Ferraro, F. Mangini, Y. Sun +11
Atoms ionization by the simultaneous absorption of multiple photons has found applications in fiber optics, where it leads to unique nonlinear phenomena. To date, studies of the io…
Thermalization of orbital angular momentum beams in multimode optical fibers
E. V. Podivilov, F. Mangini, O. S. Sidelnikov +7
We present a general theory of thermalization of light in multimode optical fibers, including optical beams with nonzero orbital angular momentum or vortex beams. A generalized Ray…
Statistical mechanics of beam self-cleaning in GRIN multimode optical fibers
F. Mangini, M. Gervaziev, M. Ferraro +7
Since its first demonstration in graded-index multimode fibers, spatial beam self-cleaning has attracted a growing research interest. It allows for the propagation of beams with a…
Femtosecond nonlinear losses in multimode optical fibers
Mario Ferraro, Fabio Mangini, Mario Zitelli +4
Research on multimode optical fibers is arousing a growing interest, for their capability to transport high-power laser beams, coupled with novel nonlinear optics-based application…
Singlemode spatiotemporal soliton attractor in multimode GRIN fibers
M. Zitelli, M. Ferraro, F. Mangini +1
Experimental and numerical studies of spatiotemporal femtosecond soliton propagation over up to 1 km spans of parabolic graded-index (GRIN) fibers reveal that initial multimode sol…
Managing Self-Phase Modulation in Pseudolinear Multimodal and Monomodal Systems
M. Zitelli, M. Ferraro, F. Mangini +1
We propose a new semi-analytical model, describing the bandwidth evolution of pulses propagating in dispersion managed (DM) transmission systems using multimodal graded-index fiber…
Spatiotemporal beam self-cleaning for high-resolution nonlinear fluorescence imaging with multimode fibres
Nawell Ould Moussa, Tigran Mansuryan, Charles Henri Hage +12
Beam self-cleaning (BSC) in graded-index (GRIN) multimode fibres (MMFs) has been recently reported by different research groups. Driven by the interplay between Kerr effect and bea…
3D time-domain beam mapping for studying nonlinear dynamics in multimode optical fibers
Y. Leventoux, G. Granger, K. Krupa +8
The characterization of the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of optical beam propagation in nonlinear multimode fibers requires the development of advanced measurement methods, capa…
Giving light a new twist with standard optical fibres: rainbow Archimedean spiral emission
F. Mangini, M. Ferraro, M. Zitelli +8
We demonstrate a new practical approach for generating multicolour spiral-shaped beams. It makes use of a standard silica optical fibre, combined with a titled input laser beam. Th…