Beam self-cleaning in multimode optical fibers and hydrodynamic 2D turbulence
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Kharenko D. S., Sidelnikov O. S., Gonta V. A., Gervaziev M. D., Krupa K., Turitsyn S., Fedoruk M. P., Podivilov E. V., Babin S. A., Wabnitz S.
We experimentally demonstrate the conservation of the average mode number in the process of Kerr beam self-cleaning in a graded-index multimode optical fiber, in analogy with wave condensation in hydrodynamic 2D turbulence.