Controlling light propagation in multimode fibers for imaging, spectroscopy, and beyond

H Cao, T Čižmár, S Turtaev, T Tyc… - Advances in Optics and …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Light transport in a highly multimode fiber exhibits complex behavior in space, time,
frequency, and polarization, especially in the presence of mode coupling. The newly …

Sha** the propagation of light in complex media

H Cao, AP Mosk, S Rotter - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The main obstacle for optical imaging or for sending information through turbid media such
as paint, clouds and biological tissue is the random scattering of light. Owing to its immense …

Twisted photons: new quantum perspectives in high dimensions

M Erhard, R Fickler, M Krenn, A Zeilinger - Light: Science & Applications, 2018 - nature.com
Twisted photons can be used as alphabets to encode information beyond one bit per single
photon. This ability offers great potential for quantum information tasks, as well as for the …

Light fields in complex media: Mesoscopic scattering meets wave control

S Rotter, S Gigan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The newly emerging field of wave front sha** in complex media has recently seen
enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the experimental …

Imaging in complex media

J Bertolotti, O Katz - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Imaging can take many forms—from optical microscopes and telescopes through
ultrasonography to X-ray tomography. However, regardless of the imaging modality, the …

Laguerre-Gaussian mode sorter

NK Fontaine, R Ryf, H Chen, DT Neilson, K Kim… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Exploiting a particular wave property for a particular application necessitates components
capable of discriminating in the basis of that property. While spectral or polarisation …

Physics of highly multimode nonlinear optical systems

LG Wright, FO Wu, DN Christodoulides, FW Wise - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Linear multimode optical systems have enabled clean experimental observations and the
applications of numerous phenomena that continually extend the boundaries of wave …

All-dielectric meta-optics and non-linear nanophotonics

Y Kivshar - National Science Review, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Most optical metamaterials fabricated and studied to date employ metallic components
resulting in significant losses, heat and overall low efficiencies. A new era of metamaterial …

Mechanisms of spatiotemporal mode-locking

LG Wright, P Sidorenko, H Pourbeyram, ZM Ziegler… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Mode-locking is a process in which different modes of an optical resonator establish stable
synchronization through non-linear interactions. This self-organization underlies light …

Kerr self-cleaning of femtosecond-pulsed beams in graded-index multimode fiber

Z Liu, LG Wright, DN Christodoulides, FW Wise - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We observe a nonlinear spatial self-cleaning process for femtosecond pulses in graded-
index (GRIN) multimode fiber (MMF). Pulses with∼ 80 fs duration at 1030 nm are launched …