Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 145, 49-61 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00147-2

Optical scar in a chaotic fiber

Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Nice, Nice, France

Corresponding author: valerie.doya@unice.fr

Abstract

We propose to use a multimode optical fiber with a D-shaped cross section as a privileged system to image wavefunctions of a chaotic system. Scar modes are in particular the subject of our investigations. We study their imprints on the statistics of intensity and we show how the introduction of a localized gain region in the fiber is used to perform a selective amplification of scar modes.