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We introduce a one-dimensional PT-symmetric system, which includes the cubic self-focusing, a double-well potential in the form of an infinitely deep potential box split in the middle by a delta-functional barrier of an effective height…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-02 Zhaopin Chen , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed

An optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) is a time delay oscillator (TDO) that uses photonics technology to provide the long delay required to generate pristine microwave carriers. Parity-time (PT) symmetry concepts applied to an OEO offer the…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-28 Mehedi Hasan , Abhijit Banerjee , Trevor Hall

We discuss the concept of characteristic squeezing modes applied to a travelling-wave optical parametric amplifier pumped by an ultrashort pulse. The characteristic modes undergo decoupled single-mode squeezing transformations, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Lvovsky , W. Wasilewski , K. Banaszek

Optical parametric amplification is a second-order nonlinear process whereby an optical signal is amplified by a pump via the generation of an idler field. It is the key ingredient of tunable sources of radiation that play an important role…

I show that an optical amplifier, when combined with photon subtraction, can be used for quantum state amplification, adding noise at a level below the standard minimum. The device could be used to significantly decrease the probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 John Jeffers

We study light-beam propagation in a nonlinear coupler with an asymmetric double-channel waveguide and derive various analytical forms of optical modes. The results show that the symmetry-preserving modes in a symmetric double-channel…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-01 Rujiang Li , Fei Lv , Lu Li , Zhiyong Xu

Phase-sensitive optical parametric amplification of squeezed states helps to overcome detection loss and noise and thus increase the robustness of sub-shot-noise sensing. Because such techniques, e.g., imaging and spectroscopy, operate with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Gaetano Frascella , Roman V. Zakharov , Olga V. Tikhonova , Maria V. Chekhova

PT-symmetric optical resonators combine absorbing regions with active, amplifying regions. The latter are the source of radiation generated via spontaneous and stimulated emission, which embodies quantum noise and can result in lasing. We…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-29 Gwangsu Yoo , H. -S. Sim , Henning Schomerus

In a non-reciprocal optical amplifier, gain depends on whether the light propagates forwards or backwards through the device. Typically, one requires either the magneto-optical effect, a temporal modulation, or an optical nonlinearity to…

We theoretically study the unique applications of optomechanics based on traveling-wave microresonators, where the optomechanical coupling of degenerate modes can be enhanced selectively by optically pumping in different directions. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yan-Lei Zhang , Chun-Hua Dong , Chang-Ling Zou , Xu-Bo Zou , Ying-Dan Wang , Guang-Can Guo

This paper investigates the resource allocation design for a pinching antenna (PA)-assisted multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system featuring multiple dielectric waveguides. To enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Shaokang Hu , Ruotong Zhao , Yihuan Liao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

We study the directional amplification of an optical probe field in a three-mode optomechanical system, where the mechanical resonator interacts with two linearly-coupled optical cavities and the cavities are driven by strong optical pump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Yong Li , Y. Y. Huang , X. Z. Zhang , Lin Tian

We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate optically tunable nonlinear mechanical damping in a cavity optomechanical system utilizing a partly resolved sideband regime. Optomechanical coupling provides a delayed nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Hideki Arahari , Motoki Asano , Hiroshi Yamaguchi , Hajime Okamoto

Parametric amplifiers are an integral part of measurements involving the conversion of propagating quantum information to mechanical motion. General time-dependent PT-symmetric parametric oscillators for unbroken parity and time reversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Pinaki Patra

We demonstrate that tunable attractive (bonding) and repulsive (anti-bonding) forces can arise in highly asymmetric structures coupled to external radiation, a consequence of the bonding/anti-bonding level repulsion of guided-wave…

The parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric structures have exhibited potential applications in developing various robust quantum devices. In an optical trimmer with balanced loss and gain, we analytically study the $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 L. F. Xue , Z. R. Gong , H. B. Zhu , Z. H. Wang

The Hamiltonian for a PT-symmetric chain of coupled oscillators is constructed. It is shown that if the loss-gain parameter $\gamma$ is uniform for all oscillators, then as the number of oscillators increases, the region of unbroken…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Carl M. Bender , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda , S. P. Klevansky

We present a generic system of three harmonic modes coupled parametrically with a time-varying coupling modulated by a combination of two pump harmonics, and show how this system provides the minimal platform to realize nonreciprocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 A. Kamal , A. Metelmann

The subject of the work are pairs of linearly coupled PT-symmetric dimers. Two different settings are introduced, namely, straight-coupled dimers, where each gain site is linearly coupled to one gain and one loss site, and cross-coupled…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-13 K. Li , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed

We address propagation of light in nonlinear twisted multi-core fibers with alternating amplifying and absorbing cores that are arranged into the PT - symmetric structure. In this structure, the coupling strength between neighboring cores…