Title :
Observation of the condensation of classical waves
Author :
Sun, Can ; Jia, Shu ; Barsi, Christopher ; Picozzi, Antonio ; Rica, Sergio ; Fleischer, Jason W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We report a theoretical, numerical and experimental study of condensation of classical optical waves. The condensation of observed directly, as a function of nonlinearity and wave kinetic energy, in a self-defocusing photorefractive crystal.
Keywords :
Adaptive optics; Crystallization; Entropy; Kinetic theory; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Numerical simulation; Optical propagation; Optical solitons; Photorefractive materials;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
