Multi-parameter distributed fiber sensing with higher-order optical and acoustic modes.

We propose a novel multi-parameter sensing technique based on a Brillouin optical time domain reflectometry in the elliptical-core few-mode fiber, using higher-order optical and acoustic modes. Multiple Brillouin peaks are observed for the backscattering of both the LP01 mode and LP11 mode. We characterize the temperature and strain coefficients for various optical-acoustic mode pairs. By selecting the proper combination of modes pairs, the performance of multi-parameter sensing can be optimized. Distributed sensing of temperature and strain is demonstrated over a 0.5-km elliptical-core few-mode fiber, with the discriminative uncertainty of 0.28°C and 5.81 µÎµ for temperature and strain, respectively.

Mode crosstalk matrix measurement of a 1 km elliptical core few-mode optical fiber.

The spatial modes of a 1 km elliptical core few-mode optical fiber (6 spatial modes) are analyzed by using liquid crystal on silicon spatial light modulators to measure the fiber's mode crosstalk matrix in Hermite-Gaussian, Laguerre-Gaussian, and linearly polarized spatial mode bases. It is shown that the fiber's spatial modes can be described by Hermite-Gaussian modes, which can propagate 1 km over the optical fiber with <-20 dB (1%) average mode crosstalk even when the fiber has multiple 1 cm diameter bends. The use of elliptical core few-mode optical fibers for space division multiplexing in data centers is discussed.

SDM transmission of real-time 10GbE traffic using commercial SFP + transceivers over 0.5km elliptical-core few-mode fiber.

We experimentally demonstrate the first few-mode space division multiplexed (SDM) transmission of real-time 10Gb/s Ethernet (10GbE) traffic using commercial small form-factor pluggable SFP + transceivers without coherent detection or multiple input multiple output digital signal processing (MIMO-DSP) over 0.5km elliptical-core few-mode-fiber, achieving <-26dB crosstalk between LP(11e) and LP(11o) modes at 1.3µm.

Measures of chaos and equipartition in integrable and nonintegrable lattices.

We have simulated numerically the behavior of the one-dimensional, periodic FPU-alpha and Toda lattices to optical and acoustic initial excitations of small--but finite and large amplitudes. For the small-through-intermediate amplitudes (small initial energy per particle) we find nearly recurrent solutions, where the acoustic result is due to the appearance of solitons and where the optical result is due to the appearance of localized breather-like packets. For large amplitudes, we find complex-but-regular behavior for the Toda lattice and "stochastic" or chaotic behaviors for the alpha lattice. We have used the well-known diagnostics: Localization parameter; Lyapounov exponent, and slope of a linear fit to linear normal mode energy spectra. Space-time diagrams of local particle energy and a wave-related quantity, a discretized Riemann invariant are also shown. The discretized Riemann invariants of the alpha lattice reveal soliton and near-soliton properties for acoustic excitations. Except for the localization parameter, there is a clear separation in behaviors at long-time between integrable and nonintegrable systems.