Universality of light thermalization in multimoded nonlinear optical systems

The origin of the Rayleigh–Jeans distribution associated with light thermalization in optical thermodynamic multimode nonlinear settings is discussed. Here the authors show that due to entropy maximization, this process is universal and is independent of the intricacies of the nonlinearities involve...

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Main Authors: Qi Zhong, Fan O. Wu, Absar U. Hassan, Ramy El-Ganainy, Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35891-9