Optical interference and pulse propagation in multimode fibers

Abstract The role played by optical interference in determining the propagation of pulses in multimode fibers is examined under conditions of mode independence and mode coupling. Single pulses and pulse-pairs generated by a source that has arbitrary temporal and spatial coherence are considered, and the role played by the spatial integration at the detector, which effectively is a form of spatial incoherence, is investigated. It is shown that three forms of optical interference may result under different conditions of source spatiotemporal coherence—intramodal, intermodal, and interpulse interference. These effects change the profile of received pulses in a, in general, nonlinear way.

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