Controlled Excitation of Supermodes in a Multicore Fiber with a 5 × 5 Square Array of Strongly Coupled Cores
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Background
3. MCF Fabrication
4. Supermodes in the Fabricated MCF
5. Experimental Study of Supermodes Propagation in MCF
6. Numerical Modeling of Nonlinear Light Propagation
7. Discussion
8. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Kalinin, N.A.; Anashkina, E.A.; Egorova, O.N.; Zhuravlev, S.G.; Semjonov, S.L.; Kim, A.V.; Litvak, A.G.; Andrianov, A.V. Controlled Excitation of Supermodes in a Multicore Fiber with a 5 × 5 Square Array of Strongly Coupled Cores. Photonics 2021, 8, 314. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8080314
Kalinin NA, Anashkina EA, Egorova ON, Zhuravlev SG, Semjonov SL, Kim AV, Litvak AG, Andrianov AV. Controlled Excitation of Supermodes in a Multicore Fiber with a 5 × 5 Square Array of Strongly Coupled Cores. Photonics. 2021; 8(8):314. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8080314
Chicago/Turabian StyleKalinin, Nikolay A., Elena A. Anashkina, Olga N. Egorova, Sergey G. Zhuravlev, Sergei L. Semjonov, Arkady V. Kim, Alexander G. Litvak, and Alexey V. Andrianov. 2021. "Controlled Excitation of Supermodes in a Multicore Fiber with a 5 × 5 Square Array of Strongly Coupled Cores" Photonics 8, no. 8: 314. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8080314