Ultra-short pulse propagation model for multi-core fibers based on local modes.

ABSTRACT: Multi-core fibers (MCFs) have sparked a new paradigm in optical communications and open new possibilities and applications in experimental physics and other fields of science, such as biological and medical imaging. In many of these cases, ultra-short pulse propagation is revealed as a key factor that enables us to exploit the full potential of this technology. Unfortunately, the propagation of such pulses in real MCFs has not yet been modelled considering polarization effects or typical random medium perturbations, which usually give rise to both longitudinal and temporal birefringent effects. Using the concept of local modes, we develop here an accurate ultra-short pulse propagation model that rigorously accounts for these phenomena in single-mode MCFs. Based on this theory, we demonstra

SUBMITTER: Macho Ortiz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5705628 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature