Lévy Statistics and the Glassy Behavior of Light in Random Fiber Lasers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Random Fiber Lasers
2.2. Fiber Bragg Grating-Based Random Fiber Lasers
3. Results
3.1. Characterization of the FBG-Based Er-RFL Explored as a Statistical-Physics Experimental Platform
3.2. Theoretical Framework
3.3. Lévy Statistics and Glassy Behavior in Er-RFL
4. Summary and Discussion
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Input Excitation Power | α | β | c | ν |
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P/Pth = 0.6 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.021 | 0.858 |
P/Pth = 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.061 | −0.193 |
P/Pth = 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.091 | 0.682 |
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Araújo, C.B.d.; Gomes, A.S.L.; Raposo, E.P. Lévy Statistics and the Glassy Behavior of Light in Random Fiber Lasers. Appl. Sci. 2017, 7, 644. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7070644
Araújo CBd, Gomes ASL, Raposo EP. Lévy Statistics and the Glassy Behavior of Light in Random Fiber Lasers. Applied Sciences. 2017; 7(7):644. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7070644
Chicago/Turabian StyleAraújo, Cid B. de, Anderson S. L. Gomes, and Ernesto P. Raposo. 2017. "Lévy Statistics and the Glassy Behavior of Light in Random Fiber Lasers" Applied Sciences 7, no. 7: 644. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7070644