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most citedSpatio-Temporal Supermodes:Rapid Reduction of Spatial Coherence in Highly Multimode Lasers

49 citations · 215 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.optics2026

Percolation with coupled lasers: effect of non-linearities on the phase transition

Simon Mahler, Nikita Stroev, Mahmoud Abu Rmilah +2

Controlled experimental studies of percolation are challenging due to difficulties in tuning site connectivity, isolating local interactions, and mitigating finite-size effects. In…

physics.optics2024

Programmable all optical spin simulator with artificial gauge fields

Simon Mahler, Eran Bernstein, Sagie Gadasi +3

The interconnection of lasers is pivotal across various research domains, from generating high-power lasers to studying out-of-equilibrium coupled systems. This paper explores our…

physics.med-ph2024

A compact and cost-effective laser-powered speckle visibility spectroscopy (SVS) device for measuring cerebral blood flow

Yu Xi Huang, Simon Mahler, Maya Dickson +6

In the realm of cerebrovascular monitoring, primary metrics typically include blood pressure, which influences cerebral blood flow (CBF) and is contingent upon vessel radius. Measu…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Interferometric speckle visibility spectroscopy (iSVS) for measuring decorrelation time and dynamics of moving samples with enhanced signal-to-noise ratio and relaxed reference requirements

Yu Xi Huang, Simon Mahler, Jerome Mertz +1

Diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) is a group of techniques used to measure the dynamics of a scattering medium in a non-invasive manner. DWS methods rely on detecting the speckle l…

physics.optics2021★ 27 cited

Controlling nonlinear interaction in a many-mode laser by tuning disorder

Yaniv Eliezer, Simon Mahler, Asher A. Friesem +2

A many-mode laser with nonlinear modal interaction could serve as a model system to study many-body physics. However, precise and continuous tuning of the interaction strength over…

physics.optics2021

Phase-locking of lasers with Gaussian coupling

Andra Naresh Kumar Reddy, Simon Mahler, Alon Goldring +3

A unique approach for steady in-phase locking of lasers in an array, regardless of the array geometry, position, orientation, period or size, is presented. The approach relies on t…

physics.optics2021

Roadmap on multimode light shaping

Marco Piccardo, Vincent Ginis, Andrew Forbes +35

Our ability to generate new distributions of light has been remarkably enhanced in recent years. At the most fundamental level, these light patterns are obtained by ingeniously com…

physics.optics2021

High-resolution digital control of highly multimode laser

Chene Tradonsky, Simon Mahler, Gaodi Cai +4

A rapid and efficient method for generating laser beams with controlled intensity, phase and coherence distributions is presented. It is based on a degenerate cavity laser in which…

physics.optics2021★ 12 cited

Real-time full-field imaging through scattering media by all-optical feedback

Ronen Chriki, Simon Mahler, Chene Tradonsky +2

Full-field imaging through scattering media is fraught with many challenges. Despite many achievements in recent years, current imaging methods are too slow to deal with fast dynam…

physics.optics2020★ 38 cited

Accelerating speckle suppression by a degenerate cavity laser with an intracavity phase diffuser

Simon Mahler, Yaniv Eliezer, Hasan Yılmaz +3

Fast speckle suppression is crucial for time-resolved full-field imaging with laser illumination. Here, we introduce a method to accelerate the spatial decoherence of laser emissio…

physics.optics2020★ 16 cited

Experimental demonstration of crowd synchrony and first-order transition with lasers

Simon Mahler, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson

Crowd synchrony, which corresponds to the synchronization of different and independent oscillators that interact with each other via a common intermediate, is ubiquitous in many fi…

physics.optics2019★ 42 cited

Rapid fair sampling of XY spin Hamiltonian with a laser simulator

Vishwa Pal, Simon Mahler, Chene Tradonsky +2

Coupled oscillators such as lasers, OPO's and BEC polaritons can rapidly and efficiently dissipate into a stable phase locked state that can be mapped onto the minimal energy (grou…

physics.optics2019★ 23 cited

Improved phase locking of laser arrays with nonlinear coupling

Simon Mahler, Matthew Goh, Chene Tradonsky +2

An arrangement based on a degenerate cavity laser for forming an array of non-linearly coupled lasers with an intra-cavity saturable absorber is presented. More than lasers we…

physics.optics2019★ 7 cited

Dynamics of dissipative topological defects in coupled phase oscillators

Simon Mahler, Vishwa Pal, Chene Tradonsky +3

The dynamics of dissipative topological defects in a system of coupled phase oscillators, arranged in one and two-dimensional arrays, is numerically investigated using the Kuramoto…

physics.optics2018★ 49 cited

Spatio-Temporal Supermodes:Rapid Reduction of Spatial Coherence in Highly Multimode Lasers

Ronen Chriki, Simon Mahler, Chene Tradonsky +3

Spatial coherence quantifies spatial field correlations over time, and is one of the fundamental properties of light. Here we investigate the spatial coherence of highly multimode…