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Transmission of Multiple Signals through an Optical Fiber Using Wavefront Shaping
Published on: March 20, 2017
Discrete focusing in an optical fiber with a two-dimensional square array of coupled waveguides
Eric Suran1, Frédéric Louradour, Alain Barthélémy
1Université de Limoges, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, XLIM Institut de Recherche,Faculté des Sciences, 123 Avenue A. Thomas, F-87060 Limoges, France. eric.suran@xlim.fr
Abstract:
We report the experimental demonstration of "discrete focusing" inside a 60-cm-long optical fiber made of a 2D square array of coupled waveguides. The suitable input amplitude and phase distributions are imposed by using a spatial light modulator. Thus we demonstrate that focusing in a single core at the output by discrete propagation is possible despite some amount of transverse heterogeneities of the waveguide array.
