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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…