多芯光纤中的时空光束搅拌
多芯光ファイバにおける時空間ビーム攪拌
멀티코어 섬유에서 공간-시간 멀멀티코어 섬유 혼동
Agitación de haz espaciotemporal en una fibra multinúcleo
Agitation de faisceau spatio-temporel dans une fibre multicore
Просторно-временное смешивание пучка в многоядровом волокне
Alena Y. Kolesnikova ¹ ², Mikhail D. Gervaziev ¹ ², Nikita V. Bochkarev ¹ ², Denis S. Kharenko ¹ ², Evgeniy V. Podivilov ¹ ², Sergey A. Babin ¹ ²
¹ Institute of Automation and Electrometry SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
² Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Multicore fibers (MCFs) are perspective for telecommunications, sensing, imaging, and laser technologies. Here, the effect of spatiotemporal beam stirring between weakly coupled cores is observed for sub-nanosecond narrowband pulses of several kW peak power propagating in ~10 m long 7-core fiber, for the first time to our knowledge.
In contrast to the low-power domain where the output power distribution in the cores is random with large fluctuations sensitive to fiber disturbances, at high power of the input pulse injected in the central core the output power becomes equalized between the cores with fluctuations reduced to <5% being insensitive to disturbances. Similar behavior is observed in cut-back experiments showing that equi-partition is approached at a distance of ~5 m.
The performed modeling describes well the experimental results and clarifies mechanisms of the new effect caused by a large nonlinear phase shift changing along the pulse and thereby resulting in statistical averaging over the pulse length of multidirectional power transfer processes between cores, thus leading to the robust equilibrium (equi-partitition for hexagonal MCF topology). At the same time, the combined output beam measured in a far field takes a stable bell-shaped profile instead of speckled beam at low powers, similar to the beam self-cleaning effect in multimode fibers.
