Enabling coherent superpositions of isofrequency optical states in multimode fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12622-12629

  Shapira, Ofer ^a   Abouraddy, Ayman F ^b   Hu, Qichao ^a   Shemuly, Dana ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Fink, Yoel ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM STATE; COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; DYNAMIC SYNTHESIS; EIGEN MODES; EIGEN STATE; EIGENSTATES; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; HOLLOW CORES; MODAL DECOMPOSITION; OPTICAL STATE; SUPERPOSITION COEFFICIENTS;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 77953557975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012622     Document Type: Article

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