Devil's staircase in three-dimensional coherent waves localized on Lissajous parametric surfaces

Y. F. Chen; T. H. Lu; K. W. Su; K. F. Huang

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.213902

Devil's staircase in three-dimensional coherent waves localized on Lissajous parametric surfaces

Y. F. Chen^*
, T. H. Lu
, K. W. Su
, K. F. Huang

^*Corresponding author for this work

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We experimentally demonstrate the significance of the longitudinal- transverse coupling in the mesoscopic regime by using a high-Q laser resonator as an analog experiment. The longitudinal-transverse coupling is found to lead to the three-dimensional (3D) coherent waves that are localized on the parametric surfaces with Lissajous transverse patterns. More strikingly, experimental results reveal that the mode locking of the 3D coherent states forms a nearly complete Devil's staircase with the hierarchical ordering.

Original language	English
Article number	213902
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	96
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.213902
Publication status	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes

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