Ultrabroadband dispersive radiation by spatiotemporal oscillation of multimode waves

Despite the abundance and importance of three-dimensional systems, relatively little progress has been made on spatiotemporal nonlinear optical waves compared to time-only or space-only systems. Here we study radiation emitted by three-dimensionally evolving nonlinear optical waves in multimode fiber. Spatiotemporal oscillations of solitons in the fiber generate multimode dispersive wave sidebands over an ultrabroadband spectral range. This work suggests routes to multipurpose sources of coherent electromagnetic waves, with unprecedented wavelength coverage.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, Supplementary Movie files for preprint available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3meO8G6ZzA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k42llO-c1r