Thermodynamic Light Funneling in Time-Synthetic Photonic Lattices
Hediyeh M. Dinani, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Abraham M. Berman Bradley, Monika Monika, Huizhong Ren, Mahmoud A. Selim, Ulf Peschel, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Mercedeh Khajavikhan · 2025
We demonstrate the conservative funneling of light in a multimode nonlinear system, where light, irrespective of its initial distribution, converges into a localized channel. This thermodynamic-based phenomenon is experimentally observed in nonlinear time-synthetic mesh lattices.