1. Optical Fibers Enter a New Space-Time Era
- Author
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Marc Fabert, Stefan Wabnitz, Alain Barthélémy, B. Mohamed Shalaby, Alessandro Tonello, Vincent Couderc, Abdelkrim Bendahmane, R. Dupiol, Katarzyna Krupa, and Guy Millot
- Subjects
Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases ,Multi-mode optical fiber ,Optical fiber ,business.industry ,Space time ,Physics::Optics ,Parametric instability ,law.invention ,Four-wave mixing ,Optics ,law ,Near ultraviolet ,business ,Laser beams ,Beam (structure) ,Mathematics - Abstract
We show experimentally a new type of parametric instability associated with the original phenomenon of beam self-cleaning in multimode fibers. Our experimental results are in good agreement with numerical solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
- Published
- 2016