Abstract

Modal decomposition (MD) has become an indispensable analysis approach for revealing the modal characteristics of optical fibers. A new MD approach based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) is presented to retrieve the exact superposition of eigenmodes of few-mode fibers. Using the near-field beam intensity and phase patterns obtained from digital holography, not only the amplitude of each eigenmode but also the exact phase difference between the higher-order modes and the fundamental mode can be predicted. Numerical simulations validate the reliability and feasibility of the approach. When ten modes in the few-mode fiber are considered, the similarities of the intensity and phase pattern between the reconstructed fields and the given fields can achieve to 97.0% and 85.6%, respectively.

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