Disorder-induced single-mode transmission

Giancarlo Ruocco; Behnam Abaie; Walter Schirmacher; Arash Mafi; Marco Leonetti

doi:10.1038/ncomms14571

Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Disorder-induced single-mode transmission

Giancarlo Ruocco,
Behnam Abaie,
Walter Schirmacher,
Arash Mafi,
Marco Leonetti

Affiliations

Giancarlo Ruocco: Center for Life Nano Science@Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Behnam Abaie: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico
Walter Schirmacher: Center for Life Nano Science@Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Arash Mafi: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico
Marco Leonetti: Center for Life Nano Science@Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14571
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Here Leonettiet al. report the observation of single-mode states in the regime of transverse Anderson localization in a disordered optical fibre, with negligible crosstalk accompanied by an inherent resilience to fibre bending and invariance with respect to the launch conditions.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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