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Nonlinear optical cavities are crucial both in classical and quantum optics; in particular, nowadays optical parametric oscillators are one of the most versatile and tunable sources of coherent light, as well as the sources of the highest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch , Eugenio Roldán , Yue Chang , Tao Shi

We study nonparaxial autofocusing beams with pre-engineered trajectories. We consider the case of linearly polarized electric optical beams and examine their focusing properties such as contrast, beam width, and numerical aperture. Such…

Charged particle optics, the description of particle trajectories in the vicinity of some optical axis, describe the imaging properties of particle optics devices. Here, we present a complete and compact description of charged particle…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-16 Felix Kern , Jonas Krehl , Arsha Thampi , Axel Lubk

I present a simple view of nonlinear optcal phenomena as being determined mostly by the length of interaction time between photons and matter. This may explain why in the last decades the progress in developing better nonlinear materials…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-25 Jacob B Khurgin

Light beams can carry a discrete, in principle unbounded amount of angular momentum. Examples of such beams, the Laguerre-Gauss modes, are frequently expressed as solutions of the paraxial wave equation. There, they are eigenstates of the…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-07 Mario Krenn , Nora Tischler , Anton Zeilinger

In our earlier work on harmonic generation with complex light [Nature Communications 15, 6878 (2024)], we demonstrated how the harmonic spectrum of a complex laser beam in a nonlinear medium can be obtained through the judicious application…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-17 Raoul Trines , Holger Schmitz , Martin King , Paul McKenna , Robert Bingham

We study Bessel beams of two-level atoms that are driven by a linearly polarized laser field. Starting from the Schroedinger equation, we determine the states of two-level atoms in a plane-wave field respecting propagation directions both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Armen G. Hayrapetyan , Oliver Matula , Andrey Surzhykov , Stephan Fritzsche

We consider modeling for strong-strong beam-beam interactions beyond preceding linearized/perturbative methods such as soft gaussian approximation or FMM (HFMM) etc. In our approach discrete coherent modes, discovered before, and possible…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin

We study the dynamics of non interacting thermal atoms embedded in structured optical lattices with non trivial geometry. The lattice would be generated by two counter propagating modes with parabolic cylindrical symmetry and we concentrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 R. Pérez-Pascual , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara , R. Jáuregui

Light propagation in distributed feedback optical structures with gain/loss regions is shown to provide an accessible laboratory tool to visualize in optics the spectral properties of the one-dimensional Dirac equation with non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Longhi

Electron vortex beams hold great promise for development in transmission electron microscopy, but have yet to be widely adopted. This is partly due to the complex set of interactions that occur between a beam carrying orbital angular…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 L. Clark , G. Guzzinati , A. Béché , A. Lubk , J. Verbeeck

The promise of innovative applications has triggered the development of many modern technologies capable of exploiting quantum effects. But in addition to future applications, such quantum technologies have already provided us with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Mónica Benito , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch

Parametric simultaneous solitary wave (simulton) excitations are shown possible in nonlinear lattices. Taking a one-dimensional diatomic lattice with a cubic potential as an example we consider the nonlinear coupling between the upper…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Bambi Hu , Guoxiang Huang

A general nonlinear dispersion relation is derived in a nondifferential form for an adiabatic sinusoidal Langmuir wave in collisionless plasma, allowing for an arbitrary distribution of trapped electrons. The linear dielectric function is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. Y. Dodin , N. J. Fisch

We present a novel general framework to deal with forward and backward components of the electromagnetic field in axially-invariant nonlinear optical systems, which include those having any type of linear or nonlinear transverse…

PT-symmetry in optics is a condition whereby the real and imaginary parts of the refractive index across a photonic structure are deliberately balanced. This balance can lead to a host of novel optical phenomena, such as unidirectional…

Nonlinear effects could play a crucial role in addressing optical nonreciprocal behaviors in scattering media. Such behaviors are, however, typically observed within a single transmission channel and predominantly in media with fixed…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-07 Xiao Liu , M. Artoni , G. C. La Rocca , Jin-Hui Wu

We numerically demonstrate inhibition of absorption, optical transparency, and anomalous momentum states of phase locked harmonic pulses in semiconductors, at UV and extreme UV frequencies, in spectral regions where the dielectric constant…

We review some quantum-phase descriptions of optical fields. We focus on real fields that can be generated in practice in various nonlinear optical processes. Thus, we rather avoid discussions of phase formalisms as such and try to exploit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-21 R. Tanas , A. Miranowicz , Ts. Gantsog

We present a systematic study on linear propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in media with dispersion, dispersionless media and vacuum. The applied method of amplitude envelopes gives the opportunity to estimate the limits of slowly…

Optics · Physics 2008-01-15 Lubomir M. Kovachev