Abstract

Recently, the growing interest in few-mode fibers in telecommunications and high-power lasers has stimulated the demand for fiber mode decomposition (MD). Here we present a fast fiber MD method with a lensless fiber-point-diffraction interferometer. The complex amplitude at the fiber end is achieved by the polarization phase-shifting technique and the lensless imaging technique. Then, the eigenmode coefficients are determined by the mode orthogonal operations of the complex amplitude. In the experiment, the SMF-28e fiber containing 10 linear polarized modes at the wavelength of 632.8 nm is studied for MD. The decomposition of the 50 * 50 pixels interferograms takes only 0.0168 s. The similarity of the intensity patterns of the testing light is larger than 97% before and after the MD. This new, to the best of our knowledge, method can achieve fast and accurate 10-mode MD without using any imaging systems.

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