Formation and annihilation of laser light pulse quanta in a thermodynamic-like pathway

Boris Vodonos; Rafi Weill; Ariel Gordon; Alexander Bekker; Vladimir Smulakovsky; Omri Gat; Baruch Fischer

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.153901

Formation and annihilation of laser light pulse quanta in a thermodynamic-like pathway

Boris Vodonos^*
, Rafi Weill
, Ariel Gordon
, Alexander Bekker
, Vladimir Smulakovsky
, Omri Gat
, Baruch Fischer

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	153901
Pages (from-to)	153901-1-153901-4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	93
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.153901
State	Published - 8 Oct 2004
Externally published	Yes

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We thank Shmuel Fishman for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) of the Israeli Academy of Sciences.

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