TY - JOUR
T1 - Optical wave turbulence and the condensation of light
AU - Bortolozzo, Umberto
AU - Laurie, Jason
AU - Nazarenko, Sergey
AU - Residori, Stefania
N1 - This paper was published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.26.002280. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - In an optical experiment, we report a wave turbulence regime that, starting with weakly nonlinear waves with randomized phases, shows an inverse cascade of photons toward the lowest wavenumbers. We show that the cascade is induced by a six-wave resonant interaction process and is characterized by increasing nonlinearity. At low wavenumbers the nonlinearity becomes strong and leads to modulational instability developing into solitons, whose number is decreasing farther along the beam.
AB - In an optical experiment, we report a wave turbulence regime that, starting with weakly nonlinear waves with randomized phases, shows an inverse cascade of photons toward the lowest wavenumbers. We show that the cascade is induced by a six-wave resonant interaction process and is characterized by increasing nonlinearity. At low wavenumbers the nonlinearity becomes strong and leads to modulational instability developing into solitons, whose number is decreasing farther along the beam.
UR - https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-26-12-2280
U2 - 10.1364/JOSAB.26.002280
DO - 10.1364/JOSAB.26.002280
M3 - Article
SN - 0740-3224
VL - 26
SP - 2280
EP - 2284
JO - Journal of the Optical Society of America B
JF - Journal of the Optical Society of America B
IS - 12
ER -