Melting and freezing of light pulses and modes in mode-locked lasers.
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).
Gordon
Ariel
A
Vodonos
Boris
B
Smulakovski
Vladimir
V
Fischer
Baruch
B