Observation of photon-photon thermodynamic processes under negative optical temperature conditions

AL Marques Muniz, FO Wu, PS Jung, M Khajavikhan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Statistical mechanics demands that the temperature of a system is positive provided that its
internal energy has no upper bound. Yet if this condition is not met, it is possible to attain …

Programmable large-scale simulation of bosonic transport in optical synthetic frequency lattices

A Senanian, LG Wright, PF Wade, HK Doyle… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic simulators using synthetic frequency dimensions have enabled flexible
experimental analogues of condensed-matter systems. However, so far, such photonic …

Thermal control of the topological edge flow in nonlinear photonic lattices

PS Jung, GG Pyrialakos, FO Wu, M Parto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The chaotic evolution resulting from the interplay between topology and nonlinearity in
photonic systems generally forbids the sustainability of optical currents. Here, we …

2D Solitons in -Symmetric Photonic Lattices

ALM Muniz, M Wimmer, A Bisianov, U Peschel… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Over the last few years, parity-time (PT) symmetry has been the focus of considerable
attention. Ever since, pseudo-Hermitian notions have permeated a number of fields ranging …

Optical neural network based on synthetic nonlinear photonic lattices

AV Pankov, ID Vatnik, AA Sukhorukov - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
We reveal that a synthetic photonic lattice based on coupled optical loops can be utilized as
a feed-forward neural network for processing of optical pulse sequences in time domain. As …

Kapitza light guiding in photonic mesh lattice

ALM Muniz, A Alberucci, CP Jisha, M Monika, S Nolte… - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate the transverse confinement of light in the presence of a
longitudinally periodic photonic potential with vanishing average. In agreement with …

Asymmetric localization and symmetric diffraction-free transmission in synthetic photonic lattice with anti-parity-time symmetry

Y Dai, Z Wen, K Ji, Z Liu, H Wang, Z Zhang, Y Gao… - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We study, to the best of our knowledge, the first observations of light propagation in synthetic
photonic lattice with anti-parity-time symmetry by tuning the gain or loss of two coupled fiber …

[HTML][HTML] Programmable photonic system for quantum simulation in arbitrary topologies

B Bartlett, OY Long, A Dutt, S Fan - APL Quantum, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Synthetic dimensions have generated great interest for studying many types of topological,
quantum, and many-body physics, and they offer a flexible platform for simulation of …

Structure des bandes, états propres et dynamique non linéaire dans un réseau photonique fibré

C Lechevalier - 2022 - theses.hal.science
L'objet des recherches de ce manuscrit est de caractériser la dynamique de la lumière dans
un réseau photonique. Les réseau photoniques sont des plateformes dans lesquels la …

Optical thermodynamics in nonlinear photonic lattices

ALM Muniz, PS Jung, FO Wu, M Parto… - 2020 Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report the first experimental observation of optical thermodynamic processes in
nonlinear mesh photonic lattices. These include Rayleigh-Jeans distributions with either …