posted on 2024-02-20, 17:00authored byChun-Wei Chen, Kabish Wisal, Mathias Fink, A. Douglas Stone, Hui Cao
Time-reversal symmetry enables shaping input waves to control output waves in many linear and nonlinear systems; however energy dissipation violates such symmetry. We consider a saturated multimode fiber amplifier in which light generates heat flow and suffers nonlinear thermo-optical scattering, breaking time-reversal symmetry. We identify a spacetime symmetry which maps the target output back to an input field. This mapping employs phase conjugation, gain and absorption substitution but not time reversal, and holds in steady-state and for slowly varying inputs. Our results open the possibility of output control of a saturated multimode fiber amplifier.
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