Emission of five OAM dispersive waves in dispersion-engineered double-ring core fiber

Abstract Beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have exhibited significant potential across various fields, such as metrology, image coding, and optical communications. High-performance broadband coherent OAM sources are critical to the operation of optical systems. The emission of dispersive waves facilitates the efficient transfer of energy to distant spectral domains while preserving the coherence among the generated frequency components. Light sources that maintain consistency over a wide range can increase the efficiency of optical communication systems and improve the measurement accuracy in imaging and metrology. In this work, we propose a germanium-doped double ring-core fiber for five OAM dispersive waves (DWs) generation. The OAM1,1 mode supported in the fiber exhibits three zero-dispersion wavelengths (ZDWs) located at 1275, 1720 and 2325 nm. When pumped under normal dispersion, the output spectrum undergoes broadening and exhibits five DWs, situated around 955, 1120, 1450, 2795 and 2965 nm, respectively. Concomitant with blue-shifted and red-shifted dispersive waves, the spectrum spans from 895 to 3050 nm with high coherence. The effect of the fiber and input pulse parameters on DWs generation, as well as the underlying dynamics of the dispersive wave generation process, are discussed. As expected, the number and location of DWs generated in the output spectrum have agreement with the prediction of the phase-matching condition. Overall, this multiple DWs generation method in the proposed fiber paves the way for developing efficient and coherent OAM light sources in fiber-based optical systems.