TY - JOUR
T1 - Formation and annihilation of laser light pulse quanta in a thermodynamic-like pathway
AU - Vodonos, Boris
AU - Weill, Rafi
AU - Gordon, Ariel
AU - Bekker, Alexander
AU - Smulakovsky, Vladimir
AU - Gat, Omri
AU - Fischer, Baruch
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Shmuel Fishman for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) of the Israeli Academy of Sciences.
PY - 2004/10/8
Y1 - 2004/10/8
N2 - The thermodynamics of pulsed in lasers was investigated. The formation and annihilation of laser light pulses in a multipulse regime at various pumping and intracavity noise level were studied. It was observed that individual pulses carried an almost constant quantum of energy. It was also found that pulses successively disappeared, one by one, in a cascade of first order phase transitions as noise was increased and/or pumping was decreased. A quantized rf power effect was observed for the thermodynamic multiphase light system.
AB - The thermodynamics of pulsed in lasers was investigated. The formation and annihilation of laser light pulses in a multipulse regime at various pumping and intracavity noise level were studied. It was observed that individual pulses carried an almost constant quantum of energy. It was also found that pulses successively disappeared, one by one, in a cascade of first order phase transitions as noise was increased and/or pumping was decreased. A quantized rf power effect was observed for the thermodynamic multiphase light system.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.153901
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.153901
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AN - SCOPUS:19644400916
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 93
SP - 153901-1-153901-4
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 15
M1 - 153901
ER -