Abstract

Intermodal nonlinear interactions with higher-order modes circumvent the dispersion-versus-nonlinearity tradeoff of single-mode waveguides. We review advances in this platform that enables nonlinear optics in fibers to realise energy-scalable sources at non-traditional colours, for applications such as biomedical imaging, or wide-band frequency conversion, for applications such as quantum networks.

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