HEИндивидуална стипендия2022–2024

BEAMLOCKER · Beam self-cleaning for spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-06-01 → 2024-05-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 750 €
Участници: 1
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Резултати накратко

Beam self-cleaning for spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers

The BEAMLOCKER project focused on investigating the emergence and dynamics of localized states, from one-dimensional temporal solitons to three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons, in single-mode and multimode optical fibers and fiber cavities. Solitons are of great interest because they propagate without shape alteration, resulting from the balance between linear and nonlinear processes that would separately lead to wave deformation. These solitary waves appear in various natural contexts, including hydrodynamics, plasma physics, condensed matter physics, biology, and nonlinear optics. In nonlinear optics, solitons, akin to particles, form in nonlinear media due to light confinement in time or space, creating temporal or spatial solitons. Their formation is driven by the balance between dispersion/diffraction and the optical Kerr effect. When both dispersion and diffraction are considered, spatiotemporal solitons may form. Periodic soliton emission generates frequency combs, which have revolutionized fields such as detection of extra-solar planets and precision metrology. Additionally, understanding spatiotemporal soliton formation is crucial for enhancing beam quality in multimode fiber resonators and spatiotemporal mode-locking of fiber lasers.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Mode locking (ML) is the most important technique to generate ultrashort laser pulses. Tremendous progress has been made in locking longitudinal modes in lasers with a single transverse mode, e.g., single-mode fiber lasers. Spatiotemporal mode-locking (STML) has been proposed by locking transverse and longitudinal modes in multimode fiber (MMF) lasers to generate ultrafast spatiotemporal pulses, opening new directions in studies of nonlinear wave propagation. Thanks to fiber multimodality, such lasers generate pulses with higher power with respect to their single-mode counterpart. On the other hand, the irregular beating among transverse modes is detrimental to achieving high beam quality. This drawback can be overcome by Kerr beam self-cleaning in graded-index MMFs. As pulse power grows above a certain threshold, this process introduced by Kerr nonlinearity allows for an irreversible transfer of power from the high order modes into the fundamental mode, leading to a stable and robust bell-shaped output transverse profile. In this framework, the BEAMLOCKER project aims at studying the dynamics of STML MMF lasers with high-quality output beams by appropriate modeling. The models will be established starting from preliminary experimental studies, and they will be studied by analytical methods, direct numerical simulations, and numerical continuation and bifurcation methods. In addition, the noise behavior of STML lasers will be investigated in detail, with a particular focus on the beam self-cleaning regimes. The project results will stimulate further theoretical analysis and experiments on complex interactions in nonlinear multimode fiber systems. Furthermore, understanding the complex properties of STML MMF lasers will shed new light on frontier physical phenomena, such as spatiotemporal rogue waves generation and turbulence, which find applications in several fields, ranging from telecommunication to biomedicine.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · RomaКоординаторИталия