Ponderomotive forces on waves in modulated media
Plasma Physics
2015-06-18 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Optics
Abstract
Nonlinear interactions of waves via instantaneous cross-phase modulation can be cast in the same way as ponderomotive wave-particle interactions in high-frequency electromagnetic field. The ponderomotive effect arises when rays of a probe wave scatter off perturbations of the underlying medium produced by a second, modulation wave, much like charged particles scatter off a quasiperiodic field. Parallels with the point-particle dynamics, which itself is generalized by this theory, lead to new methods of wave manipulation, including asymmetric barriers for light.
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@article{arxiv.1402.5900,
title = {Ponderomotive forces on waves in modulated media},
author = {I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.5900},
year = {2015}
}