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The search for relics from the inflation era in the form of B-mode polarization of the CMB is a major challenge in cosmology. The main obstacle appears to come from the complexity of Galactic foregrounds that need to be removed.…

Compact interferometers, called phasemeters, make it possible to operate over a large range while ensuring a high resolution. Such performance is required for the stabilization of large instruments dedicated to experimental physics such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-03 Jennifer Watchi , Sam Cooper , Binlei Ding , Conor M. Mow-Lowry , Christophe Collette

In optical detection of ultrasound, resonators with high Q-factors are often used to maximize sensitivity. However, in order to perform parallel interrogation, conventional interferometric techniques require an overlap between the resonator…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-27 Yoav Hazan , Amir Rosenthal

We derive two methods for simultaneously controlling the resonance frequency, linewidth and multipolar nature of the resonances of radially symmetric structures. Firstly, we formulate an eigenvalue problem for a global shift in the…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-23 James R Capers , Dean A Patient , Simon A R Horsley

We present an alternative approach to pump-probe spectroscopy for measuring fast charge dynamics with an atomic force microscope (AFM). Our approach is based on coherent multifrequency lock-in measurement of the intermodulation between a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Riccardo Borgani , David B. Haviland

In this letter, we study a nonlinear interferometric setup based on diffraction rather than beam combining. It consists of a nonlinear analogue of Young's double-slit experiment where a nonlinear material is placed exactly after one of the…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Vassilis Paltoglou , Nikolaos K. Efremidis

We study an inverse boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation in $2 + 1$ dimensions. The objective is to recover an unknown potential $q(x, t)$ from the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map using real-valued waves. We propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Markus Harju , Suvi Anttila , Teemu Tyni

Linear (spectro) polarimetry is usually performed using separate photon flux measurements after spatial or temporal polarization modulation. Such classical polarimeters are limited in sensitivity and accuracy by systematic effects and…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-28 Frans Snik , Theodora Karalidi , Christoph U. Keller

Various methods of force measurement with the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) are compared for their ability to accurately determine the tip-surface force from analysis of the nonlinear cantilever motion. It is explained how intermodulation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Daniel Platz , Daniel Forchheimer , Erik A. Tholén , David B. Haviland

We investigate nondegenerate parametric oscillations in a multimode superconducting microwave resonator that is terminated by a SQUID. The parametric effect is achieved by modulating magnetic flux through the SQUID at a frequency close to…

We report the observation of nonlinearity-induced broadening of resonances in dynamically modulated directional couplers. When the refractive index of the guiding channels in the coupler is harmonically modulated along the propagation…

This study presents a nonlinear signal processing method for accurate radar-based heartbeat interval estimation by exploiting the periodicity of higher-order harmonics inherent in heartbeat signals. Unlike conventional approaches that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Kohei Shimomura , Chi-Hsuan Lee , Takuya Sakamoto

Strong nonlinearity of a self-resonant radio frequency superconducting quantum interference device (rf-SQUID) meta-atom is explored via intermodulation (IM) measurements. Previous work in zero dc magnetic flux showed a sharp onset of IM…

Many important techniques for investigating the properties of extragalactic radio sources, such as spectral-index and rotation-measure mapping, involve the comparison of images at two or more frequencies. In the case of radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Croke , D. C. Gabuzda

A method is proposed to solve the challenging problem of determining the supratransmission threshold (onset of instability of harmonic boundary driving inside a band gap) in multicomponent nonintegrable nonlinear systems. It is successfully…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-08-12 P. Anghel-Vasilescu , J. Dorignac , F. Geniet , J. Leon , M. Taki

A two-phonon system with lowest-order coupling of form $Q_RQ_{IR}^2$ is studied by perturbation method, and analytic results for both phonon displacements and frequencies are obtained. The frequency renormalization of infrared (IR) active…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Yijie Zeng

Photodetector nonlinearity, the main limiting factor in terms of optical power in the detection chain, is corrected to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of a short-time measurement in dual-comb spectroscopy. An iterative correction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-08 Philippe Guay , Nicolas Bourbeau Hébert , Alex Tourigny-Plante , Vincent Michaud-Belleau , Jérôme Genest

We propose a mechanism to use nonlinearity arising from inter-particle interactions to significantly enhance rotation sensitivity of matter-wave interferometers. The method relies on modifying Sagnac interferometers by introducing a weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-24 M. Kolár , T. Opatrný , Kunal K. Das

A magnetometric technique is demonstrated that may be suitable for precision measurements of fields ranging from the sub-microgauss level to above the Earth field. It is based on resonant nonlinear magneto-optical rotation caused by atoms…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Budker , D. F. Kimball , V. V. Yashchuk , M. Zolotorev

We show that the unitary evolution of a harmonic oscillator coupled to a two-level system can be undone by a suitable manipulation of the two-level system -- more specifically: by a quasi-instantaneous phase change. This enables us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Giovanna Morigi , Enrique Solano , Berthold-Georg Englert , Herbert Walther