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Article Dans Une Revue EPL - Europhysics Letters Année : 2021

Energy and wave-action flows underlying Rayleigh-Jeans thermalization of optical waves propagating in a multimode fiber

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The wave turbulence theory predicts that a conservative system of nonlinear waves can exhibit a process of condensation, which originates in the singularity of the Rayleigh-Jeans equilibrium distribution of classical waves. Considering light propagation in a multimode fiber, we show that light condensation is driven by an energy flow toward the higher-order modes, and a bi-directional redistribution of the wave-action (or power) to the fundamental mode and to higher-order modes. The analysis of the near-field intensity distribution provides experimental evidence of this mechanism. The kinetic equation also shows that the wave-action and energy flows can be inverted through a thermalization toward a negative temperature equilibrium state, in which the high-order modes are more populated than low-order modes. In addition, a Bogoliubov stability analysis reveals that the condensate state is stable.
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hal-03036912 , version 1 (02-12-2020)

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K Baudin, A Fusaro, J Garnier, N Berti, K Krupa, et al.. Energy and wave-action flows underlying Rayleigh-Jeans thermalization of optical waves propagating in a multimode fiber. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2021, 134, pp.14001. ⟨10.1209/0295-5075/134/14001⟩. ⟨hal-03036912⟩
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