Lévy statistical fluctuations from a Random Amplifying Medium
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We report the studies of emission from a novel random amplifying medium that we term a “Lévy Laser” due to the non-Gaussian statistical nature of its emission over the ensemble of random realizations. It is observed that the amplification is dominated by certain improbable events that are “larger than rare”, which give the intensity statistics a Lévy like “fat tail”. This, to the best of our knowledge, provides the first experimental realization of Lévy flight in optics in a random amplifying medium.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005