on Friday, July 9, 2010

Author(s): Amir Rosen, Rafi Weill, Boris Levit, Vladimir Smulakovsky, Alexander Bekker, and Baruch Fischer

We experimentally demonstrate critical behavior of a passively mode-locked laser with properties that are similar to those of gas-liquid and magnetic spin systems. The laser light modes provide a special nonthermodynamic many-body system where noise takes the role of temperature. It is also a rare o...

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013905] Published Fri Jul 02, 2010