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20172026
most citedSubwavelength and directional control of flexural waves in zone-folding induced topological plates

171 citations · 271 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.optics2026

Reconfigurable generation of high-power structured light via nonlinear beam shaping

KyeoReh Lee, Baichuan Huang, Peyman Ahmadi +4

High-power structured light has a wide range of applications, from material processing and high-capacity optical communications to programmable electron beams, plasmas, and nuclear…

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 52 cited

Topological state transfer in Kresling origami

Yasuhiro Miyazawa, Chun-Wei Chen, Rajesh Chaunsali +4

Topological mechanical metamaterials have been widely explored for their boundary states, which can be robustly isolated or transported in a controlled manner. However, such system…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 171 cited

Subwavelength and directional control of flexural waves in zone-folding induced topological plates

Rajesh Chaunsali, Chun-Wei Chen, Jinkyu Yang

Inspired by the quantum spin Hall effect shown by topological insulators, we propose a plate structure that can be used to demonstrate the pseudo-spin Hall effect for flexural wave…