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most citedThermalization of light's orbital angular momentum in nonlinear multimode waveguide systems

35 citations · 113 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2026

Unified framework of optical thermodynamics and optical pressure

Nikolaos K. Efremidis, Huizhong Ren, Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Optical thermodynamics is a newly developed framework that applies principles from statistical mechanics to describe the intricate behavior of weakly nonlinear, multimode photonic…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Universal Routing of Light via Optical Thermodynamics

Hediyeh M. Dinani, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Abraham M. Berman Bradley +6

Understanding and exploiting the dynamics of complex nonlinear systems is nowadays at the core of a broad range of scientific and technological endeavors. Within the optical domain…

physics.optics2025★ 14 cited

Observation of Joule-Thomson photon-gas expansion

Marco S. Kirsch, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Richard Altenkirch +9

In recent years, a self-consistent optical thermodynamic framework has emerged that offers a systematic methodology to understand, harness and exploit the complex collective dynami…

physics.optics2024★ 17 cited

Nature of Optical Thermodynamic Pressure Exerted in Highly Multimoded Nonlinear Systems

Huizhong Ren, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Fan O. Wu +4

The theory of optical thermodynamics provides a comprehensive framework that enables a self-consistent description of the intricate dynamics of nonlinear multimoded photonic system…

physics.optics2024★ 5 cited

Rigorous analysis of optical forces in dielectric structures based on the Minkowski-Helmholtz formula

Huizhong Ren, Haokun Luo, Mahmoud A. Selim +4

Optical forces in dielectric structures are typically analyzed by utilizing either the Maxwell stress tensor or energy-based methods from which they can be derived by means of the…

physics.optics2024★ 8 cited

Dalton's law of partial optical thermodynamic pressures in highly multimoded nonlinear photonic systems

Huizhong Ren, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Fan O. Wu +3

We show that in highly multimoded nonlinear photonic systems, the optical thermodynamic pressures emerging from different species of the optical field obey Dalton's law of partial…

physics.optics2022★ 9 cited

A thermodynamic description of the near- and far-field intensity patterns emerging from multimode nonlinear waveguide arrays

Mahmoud A. Selim, Fan O. Wu, Huizhong Ren +2

Nonlinear highly multimode photonic systems are ubiquitous in optics. Yet, the sheer complexity arising from the action of nonlinearity in multimode environments has posed theoreti…

physics.optics2021★ 35 cited

Thermalization of light's orbital angular momentum in nonlinear multimode waveguide systems

Fan O. Wu, Qi Zhong, Huizhong Ren +3

We show that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a light field can be thermalized in a nonlinear cylindrical multimode optical waveguide. We find, that upon thermal equilibrium,…

quant-ph2017★ 23 cited

Quantitative Coherence Witness for Finite Dimensional States

Huizhong Ren, Anni Lin, Siying He +1

We define the stringent coherence witness as an observable which has zero mean value for all of incoherent states and hence a nonzero mean value indicates the coherence. The existe…