Feature request: Partial pumping

[razimantv]

Can we have trajectories with partial pumping? For example, keep a set of edges at a fixed pump and increase the pump in another set of edges from 0 to high.

[arnaudon]

Do you think we would like to have multiple pumps? As in D0 can be a vector of D0s, one per pump, and one has to use custom pump profiles as a list of pump profiles?

[razimantv]

Yes, the general setting would be useful: All edges are pumped as [D1, D2, D3 ...] initially and we change the pumps linearly to [D1', D2', D3'...].

[arnaudon]

ah, so for each edge we have the 'slope' of d0 and the initial value? So in the code, we vary d0, but on teh edges, we effectively have [D0_0 + D0_1 * d0, D1_0 + D1_1 * d0, etc...] ?

[razimantv]

Yes, that is the idea. But I wonder how it would work with mode competition

[arnaudon]

I think it's fine, it could be fun to try! we didn't explore it because it's not quite possible to do in experiments I think. I'll give it a try later this week or early next week

[razimantv]

We are doing experiments like this with coupled disks. We keep one disk at high power and slowly increase the power in the other disk from 0.

[arnaudon]

ah ok, I didn't know! interesting!

[arnaudon]

wip PR here: #16