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Geometric Frustration in Large Arrays of Coupled Lasers Near Field Far Field Micha Nixon Eitan Ronen, Moti Fridman, Amit Godel, Asher Friesem and Nir Davidson Weizmann Institute of Science
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Page 1: Geometric Frustration in Large Arrays of Coupled Lasers Near Field Far Field Micha Nixon Eitan Ronen, Moti Fridman, Amit Godel, Asher Friesem and Nir Davidson.

Geometric Frustration in Large Arrays of

Coupled LasersNear FieldFar Field

Micha NixonEitan Ronen, Moti Fridman, Amit Godel,

Asher Friesem and Nir DavidsonWeizmann Institute of Science

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IntroductionWhat is phase locking ?

)()()( ttt 12 const

Coupling

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How to phase lock lasers ? (Diffraction coupling.)

Output coupler Mirror

GAIN

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Degenerate cavity

Mirror

GAIN

Mask

f1f2

Lens (f2)

Lens (f1)

Output coupler

f2 f1

),( yxE

),( yxE

300µm

),( yxE

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Near field

Far field Far field

Degenerate cavity square array

Near field

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Degenerate cavity

Mirror

GAIN

Mask Lens Lens Output coupler

Far Field

No coupling

Far Field

With coupling

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Negative coupling

21 EE

E

0 ππ

0

00

0 π

π

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Negative coupling

0 π

π 0

XY model of anti ferromagnetic interactions

n

ji

jiJ Η

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Negative coupling

0 π

π 0

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Triangular array

32

32

0

32 3

2

32

32

32

32

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Triangular array

0

32

32

32

323

2

32

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Triangular array

Near FieldMany longitudinal modes.

Far Field

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Kagome array

32

32

0

32

0 32

0

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Kagome array

Near Field

Far Field

Moessner R and Chalker J T “Low-temperature properties of

classical geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets”, Phys. Rev. B 58 12049 (1998)

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Honey-comb (Grafin) array

Near Field

Far Field

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No φ phase ordering !

32

32

0

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2

22

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22

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22

2

22

2

22

2

22

2

22

2

22

2

22

2

2

2

22

2

22

?

? ?

3φ phase ordering

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Is this a 3φ “condensate” ?

3φ condensate simulations: Ground states using a Monte Carlo simulation that minimizes the spins energy.

XY model

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Next Nearest Neighbor Coupling

0

-+

-+

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Kagome array with next nearest neighbor coupling

z

Mirror

GAIN

Mask

f1f2

f2

f1

Output coupler

f2 f1

T

nm

zzif

x

nm e4

22

2

NN

NN

nmnm

df

ddx

0

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Kagome array with next nearest neighbor coupling

2

2

),(

),(

yxI

yxIIPR

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Kagome array with next nearest neighbor coupling

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External “field ”

Degenerate cavity

External laser

0 π 0 0 0 0?

Gain

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External Field for 1D

Near field spiral Far field

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External disordered field

Degenerate cavity

0 π 0 ? ? ??

External degenerate laser cavity

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Effects of finite “temperature” in square array

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Summary

• Frustration and other ground states of coupled systems (XY model) can be

demonstrated experimentally with large arrays of coupled lasers.

• Coupling strength, range and sign can be easily controlled.

•Study effects of external fields, noise and quenched disorder. 

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Fourier coupling

Mirror

GAIN

Mask

f1f2

Lens (f2) Pinhole

Lens (f1)

Output coupler

f2 f1

E }{EF

}{EF

U

U}{UFE

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“Phase transitions”

Near field square lattice

No coupling

Positive coupling

Negative coupling

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Sharp phase transitions

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Direct measurement of phase decoherence

0 0 0 0,, 0,,

50% fringe visibility 100% fringe visibility

0

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Distance1 2 3 4 5 6

Frin

ge v

isib

ility

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

1

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

Short range phase ordering

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Numerical model

• Laser rate equations

• Cavity transfer matrix.

}{

)sin(innj

iji

dt

d

ni

i

e

e

1

M

ni

i

e

e

1

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Phase Locking

Fourier plain

f1f1f2

f2

(f2)

(f1)

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Many Longitudinal modesA single lasers spectral lines are separated by

LK

1