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Optical Fibers Enter a New Space-Time Era

Marc FabertStefan WabnitzAlain BarthélémyB. Mohamed ShalabyAlessandro TonelloVincent CoudercAbdelkrim BendahmaneR. DupiolKatarzyna KrupaGuy Millot

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Condensed Matter::Quantum GasesMulti-mode optical fiberOptical fiberbusiness.industrySpace timePhysics::OpticsParametric instabilitylaw.inventionFour-wave mixingOpticslawNear ultravioletbusinessLaser beamsBeam (structure)Mathematics

description

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.

https://doi.org/10.1364/np.2016.nw5a.2