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We describe wave propagation and soliton localization in photonic lattices which are induced in a nonlinear medium by an optical interference pattern, taking into account the inherent lattice deformations at the soliton location. We obtain…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey A. Sukhorukov

(Abbreviated) Particle-in-cell simulations of relativistic, weakly magnetized collisionless shocks show that particles can gain energy by repeatedly crossing the shock front. This requires scattering off self-generated small length-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 John G. Kirk , Brian Reville

Optical propagation and vortices in nonlinear media have been intensively studied in modern optical physics. In this paper, we establish constraints regarding the propagation constant and provide an existence theory and numerical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Tianyi Zhang , Luciano Medina , Zihan Zhang

The rotational dynamics of particles subject to external illumination is found to produce light amplification and inelastic scattering at high rotation velocities. Light emission at frequencies shifted with respect to the incident light by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ana Asenjo-Garcia , Alejandro Manjavacas , F. Javier García de Abajo

The angular distribution of low-frequency radiation after single scattering by an isotropic distribution of relativistic electrons considerably differs from the Rayleigh angular function. In particular, the scattering by an ensemble of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei Y. Sazonov , Rashid A. Sunyaev

Scattering relativistic electrons with optical lasers can result in a significant frequency upshift for the photons, potentially producing $\gamma$-rays. This is what linear Compton scattering taught us. Ultra-intense lasers offer nowadays…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Marija Vranic , Thomas Grismayer , Sebastian Meuren , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

We have studied the soliton propagation through a segment containing random point-like scatterers. In the limit of small concentration of scatterers when the mean distance between the scatterers is larger than the soliton width, a method…

Solitons are non-dispersing localized waves that occur in diverse physical settings. A variety of optical solitons have been observed, but versions that involve both spatial and temporal degrees of freedom are rare. Optical fibers designed…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 William H. Renninger , Frank W. Wise

Polaritons are quantum mechanical superpositions of photon states with elementary excitations in molecules and solids. The light-matter admixture causes a characteristic frequency-momentum dispersion shared by all polaritons irrespective of…

Solitons propagating in media with higher order dispersion will shed radiation known as dispersive wave or resonant radiation, with applications in frequency broadening, deep UV sources for spectroscopy or simply fundamental studies of…

Semiconductor microcavities operating in the polaritonic regime are highly non-linear, high speed systems due to the unique half-light, half-matter nature of polaritons. Here, we report for the first time the observation of propagating…

The manipulation of light in periodic structures is fundamental to the development of discrete photonics and provides a versatile platform for controlling light propagation in integrated and quantum photonic systems. This work reports the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-15 Vjekoslav Vulić , Neven Šantić , Hrvoje Buljan , Damir Aumiler

Compton scattering of twisted photons is investigated within a non-relativistic framework using first-order perturbation theory. We formulate the problem in the density matrix theory, which enables one to gain new insights into scattering…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 S. Stock , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche , D. Seipt

The backward Compton scattering is a basic process at future higher energy photon colliders. To obtain a high probability of e->gamma conversion the density of laser photons in the conversion region should be so high that simultaneous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Galynskii , E. Kuraev , M. Levchuk , V. Telnov

We demonstrate that the fission of higher-order N-solitons with a subsequent ejection of fundamental quasi-solitons creates solitonic cavities, formed by a pair of solitons with dispersive light trapped between them. As a result of multiple…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 R. Driben , A. V. Yulin , A. Efimov , B. A Malomed

In recent years it has become clear that the transport of excitons and charge carriers in molecular systems can be enhanced by coherent coupling with photons, giving rise to the formation of hybrid excitations known as polaritons. Such…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-19 M. Balasubrahmaniyam , Arie Simkovich , Adina Golombek , Guy Ankonina , Tal Schwartz

We introduce a concept of noncoherent optical pulse discrimination from a coherent (or partially coherent) signal of the same energy using a phenomenon of soliton generation. The impact of randomisation of the optical signal content on the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 S. K. Turitsyn , S. A. Derevyanko

We consider the coupled propagation of an optical field and its second harmonic in a quadratic nonlinear medium governed by a coupled system of Schrodinger equations. We prove the existence of ring-profiled optical vortex solitons appearing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Luciano Medina

The light amplification by finite active media is used extensively in modern optics applications. In this paper the light amplification and scattering by cluster of small particles is studied analytically and numerically with the help of…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-16 V. V. Prosentsov

It is shown, that diffusion of saturated gain (e.g. diffusion of population inversion in lasers) causes, and/or enhances a modulational instability of generated light field. In case of a subcritical system (e.g. a laser with saturable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Kestutis Staliunas