Thermalized light finds its way

IF 32.9 1区物理与天体物理 Q1 OPTICS

Nature Photonics Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI:10.1038/s41566-025-01764-4

Mashnoon Alam Sakib, Maxim R. Shcherbakov

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Abstract

Thermodynamic-like phenomena in optics are a nascent yet elusive route to control light flow. By emulating Joule–Thomson expansion in synthetic photonic lattices, it is now possible to funnel light universally into a single output, regardless of the input.

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热化光找到了出路

光学中的类热力学现象是控制光流的一种新兴但难以捉摸的途径。通过模拟合成光子晶格中的焦耳-汤姆逊展开，现在可以将光普遍地汇集到一个输出中，而不管输入是什么。

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Nature Photonics 物理-光学

CiteScore

54.20

自引率

1.70%

发文量

158

审稿时长

12 months

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