READ ME File For ' Data supporting the PhD thesis "Mode control and laser beam shaping in multimode and multicore fibres" ' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3422 ReadMe Author: Kunhao Ji, University of Southampton ORCID ID(0000-0002-2300-5942) This dataset supports the thesis entitled "Mode control and laser beam shaping in multimode and multicore fibres" AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton DATE OF AWARD: 2025 DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA The data can be viewed using Excel software or Matlab. This dataset contains: The originally measured and calcuated data for plotting figures within the thesis. Date of data collection: from September 2020 to March 2024 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton Licence:CC-BY Related projects/Funders: Multimode light shaping: from optical fibers to nanodevices, Horizon 2020 ERC (No. 802682) Self-organization of light in multicore optical fibres: a route to scalable high-power lasers and all-optical signal processing, EPSRC(EP/T019441/1) Related publication: All-optical, reconfigurable mode switcher integrated in multicore fibers with a counter-propagating configuration; Mode attraction, rejection and control in nonlinear multimode optics; Controlled generation of picosecond-pulsed higher-order Poincaré sphere beams from an ytterbium-doped multicore fiber amplifier; Mode Control and Laser Beam Shaping in Multimode and Multicore Fibres Date that the file was created: March, 2025