We consider a microcavity made by a graded-index glass, doped with dye molecules, placed within two planar mirrors and study Bose-Einstein condensation of photons. The presence of the mirrors leads to an effective photon mass, and the index grading provides an effective trapping frequency; the photon gas becomes formally equivalent to a two-dimensional Bose gas trapped in an isotropic harmonic potential. The inclusion of nonlinear effects provides an effective interaction between photons. We discuss, in particular, thermal lensing effects and nonlocal nonlinearity, and quantitatively compare our results with the reported experimental data.
Bose-Einstein condensation of photons with nonlocal nonlinearity in a dye-doped graded-index microcavity
Claudio Conti
2014
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We consider a microcavity made by a graded-index glass, doped with dye molecules, placed within two planar mirrors and study Bose-Einstein condensation of photons. The presence of the mirrors leads to an effective photon mass, and the index grading provides an effective trapping frequency; the photon gas becomes formally equivalent to a two-dimensional Bose gas trapped in an isotropic harmonic potential. The inclusion of nonlinear effects provides an effective interaction between photons. We discuss, in particular, thermal lensing effects and nonlocal nonlinearity, and quantitatively compare our results with the reported experimental data.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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