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Supersymmetric Transformations in Optical Fibers

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PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.9.014024

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  1. Spanish National Plan projects [MINECO/FEDER UE XCORE TEC2015-70858-C2-1-R, PHUTURE TEC2015-73581-JIN, HIDRASENSE RTC-2014-2232-3]
  2. F.P.I. Grant [BES-2013-062952]

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Supersymmetry (SUSY) has recently emerged as a tool to design unique optical structures with degenerate spectra. Here, we study several fundamental aspects and variants of one-dimensional SUSY in axially symmetric optical media, including their basic spectral features and the conditions for degeneracy breaking. Surprisingly, we find that the SUSY degeneracy theorem is partially (totally) violated in optical systems connected by isospectral (broken) SUSY transformations due to a degradation of the paraxial approximation. In addition, we show that isospectral constructions provide a dimension-independent design control over the group delay in SUSY fibers. Moreover, we find that the studied unbroken and isospectral SUSY transformations allow us to generate refractive-index superpartners with an extremely large phase-matching bandwidth spanning the S thorn C thorn L optical bands. These singular features define a class of optical fibers with a number of potential applications. To illustrate this, we numerically demonstrate the possibility of building photonic lanterns supporting broadband heterogeneous supermodes with large effective area, a broadband all-fiber true-mode (de) multiplexer requiring no mode conversion, and different mode-filtering, mode-conversion, and pulse-shaping devices. Finally, we discuss the possibility of extrapolating our results to acoustics and quantum mechanics.

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