Condensation of Optical Waves in Multimode Fibers

Kilian Baudin

Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne -

We report the observation of the transition to condensation of optical waves propagating in multimode fibers: below a critical value of the energy, the fundamental mode gets macroscopic populated, in agreement with the equilibrium theory.

Related paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11950