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A triangular-lattice pattern is observed in light beams resulting from the spatial cross modulation between an optical vortex and a triangular shaped beam undergoing parametric interaction. Both up- and down-conversion processes are…

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Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-28 Jonathan Tekverk , Christopher Siebor , Kunal K. Das

Materials science and the study of the electronic properties of solids are a major field of interest in both physics and engineering. The starting point for all such calculations is single-electron, or non-interacting, band structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Alicia J. Kollár , Mattias Fitzpatrick , Peter Sarnak , Andrew A. Houck

We discuss several novel types of multi-component (temporal and spatial) envelope solitary waves that appear in fiber and waveguide nonlinear optics. In particular, we describe multi-channel solitary waves in bit-parallel-wavelength fiber…

Gravitational waves (GWs) offer a new observational window into the universe, providing insights into compact objects and cosmic structures. Gravitational lensing, commonly studied in electromagnetic waves, also affects GWs, introducing…

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In the present work, we propose a new set of coherent structures that arise in nonlinear dynamical lattices with more than one components, namely interlaced solitons. These are waveforms in which in the relevant anti-continuum limit, i.e.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Cuevas , Q. E. Hoq , H. Susanto , P. G. Kevrekidis

To add the detailed information to the existed knowledge of nonlinear optics field, the nonlinear optical processes of the second and third order have been discussed in their respective susceptibility tensors in the presence of degenerate…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-29 A Srinivasa Rao

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

In recent years, essential progress has been made in the nonlinear stability analysis of periodic Lugiato-Lefever waves against co-periodic and localized perturbations. Inspired by considerations from fiber optics, we introduce a novel…

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Optomechanical manipulation of nanoparticles enabling ultimate control over their 3D motion is nowadays one of the most highly demanded links between optics, biology, medicine, microfluidics, etc., paving the way for a plethora of emerging…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 D. A. Dolinina , A. S. Shalin , A. V. Yulin

Using simple kinematics, we propose a general theory of linear wave interactions between the interfacial waves of a two dimensional (2D), inviscid, multi-layered fluid system. The strength of our formalism is that one does not have to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-05 Anirban Guha , Firdaus E. Udwadia

The longstanding problem of moving discrete solitary waves in nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattices is revisited. The context is photorefractive crystal lattices with saturable nonlinearity whose grand-canonical energy barrier vanishes for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-25 T. R. O. Melvin , A. R. Champneys , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. Cuevas

Optomechanical systems close to their quantum ground state and nonlinear nanoelectromechanical systems are two hot topics of current physics research. As high-reflectivity and low mass are crucial features to improve optomechanical coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 T. Antoni , K. Makles , R. Braive , T. Briant , P. -F. Cohadon , I. Sagnes , I. Robert-Philip , A. Heidmann

We consider the coupled electromagnetic waves propagating in a waveguide array, which consists of alternating waveguides of positive and negative refraction indexes. Due to zigzag configuration there are interactions between both nearest…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-01 Elena V. Kazantseva , Andrey I. Maimistov

It is shown, that at weakly nonlinear interaction of waves are possible as modes with chaotic dynamics, and with increasing degree of coherence. Conditions are found at which they arise. One of the types of such interaction is decays. The…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-26 Vyacheslav Buts , Igor Kovalchuk , Dmytro Tarasov , Alexander Tolstoluzhsky

An all-optically driven strategy to govern a liquid crystalline collective molecular nonlinear oscillator is discussed. It does not require external feedbacks of any kind while the oscillator and a time-depending perturbation both are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-29 Dmitry O. Krimer , Etienne Brasselet

We report on a systematic study of the dynamics of gravitational waves in full 3D numerical relativity. We find that there exists an interesting regime in the parameter space of the wave configurations: a near-linear regime in which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Peter Anninos , Joan Masso , Edward Seidel , Wai-Mo Suen , Malcolm Tobias

We put forward a powerful technique that allows generating quasi-non-diffracting light beams with a variety of complex transverse shapes and topologies. We show that, e.g., spiraling patterns, patterns featuring curved or bent bright…

We overview the properties of nonlinear guided waves and (bright and dark) spatial optical solitons in a periodic medium created by a sequence of linear and nonlinear layers. First, we consider a single layer with a cubic nonlinear response…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-01 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We predict the existence of spatially localized nontrivial topological states of the Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive atomic interactions confined by an optical lattice. These nonlinear localized states, matter-wave gap vortices,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Yuri S. Kivshar