Melting and freezing of light pulses and modes in mode-locked lasers

被引：23

作者：

Gordon, A ^{[1
]}

Vodonos, B ^{[1
]}

Smulakovski, V ^{[1
]}

Fischer, B ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Elect Engn, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2003年 / 11卷 / 25期

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D O I：

10.1364/OE.11.003418

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We present a first experimental demonstration of melting of light pulses and freezing of lightwave modes by applying external noise which acts like temperature, verifying our recent theoretical prediction ( Gordon and Fischer [ 1]). The experiment was performed in a fiber laser passively mode- locked by nonlinear rotation of polarization. The first order phase transition was observed directly in time domain and also by measurement of the quartic order parameter ( RF power). (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.

引用

页码：3418 / 3424

页数：7

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