Abstract
In this article it is shown that for specific initial conditions an input beam injected in a multimode periodic segmented waveguide does not diffract and remains collimated all along the waveguide, whereas a speckle-like pattern is expected at the output of a multimode structure. This nonintuitive behavior can be explained with the help of ray and wave chaos properties. A modal analysis developed in this article reveals that this nondiffractive beam regime is due to a specific superposition of modes with regularly spaced propagation constants. A discrepancy with the commonly used equivalent continuous waveguide model is also identified.
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