Ricerc@Sapienza

In recent years, nonlinear pulse propagation in multimode fibers (MMFs) is has experienced a dramatic resurgence of interest, because of their potential for opti- cal communications and high-power lasers. However, from the fundamental view- point several aspects still remain to be fully understood. Here we experimentally and theoretically studied the dynamics of high-energy (up to reaching the fiber damage threshold) spatiotemporal solitons in MMFs with a graded-index (GRIN) core profile.