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We investigate the waveguiding properties of the optical interference pattern of two counter-propagating Laguerre-Gaussian beams. The number, helicity, radius, pitch, depth and frequencies of transverse confinement of the waveguides are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bhattacharya

We develop simple density-matrix models to describe the role of coherence in resonant-tunneling (RT) transport of quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs). Specifically, we investigate the effects of coherent coupling between the lasing levels with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 Sushil Kumar , Qing Hu

We show in which conditions optical gaussian beams, propagating throughout an homogeneous dielectric right angle prism, present an asymmetric Goos-H\"anchen (GH) effect. This asymmetric behavior is seen for incidence at critical angles and…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-20 Manoel P. Araujo , Silvânia A. Carvalho , Stefano De Leo

We analyze the transfer function of a three-dimensional atomic Bragg beamsplitter formed by two counterpropagating pulsed Gaussian laser beams. Even for ultracold atomic ensembles, the transfer efficiency depends significantly on the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-07 Antje Neumann , Martina Gebbe , Reinhold Walser

A model of sequential resonant tunneling transport between two-dimensional subbands that takes into account explicitly elastic scattering is investigated. It is compared to transport measurements performed on quantum cascade lasers where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Romain Terazzi , Tobias Gresch , Andreas Wittmann , Jérôme Faist

Bessel beams are renowned members of a wide family of non-diffracting (propagation-invariant) fields. We report on experiments showing that non-diffracting fields are also immune to diffusion. We map the phase and magnitude of structured…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Slava Smartsev , Ronen Chriki , David Eger , Ofer Firstenberg , Nir Davidson

We provide new single-integral formulas of the power spectral density of single-channel and cross-channel nonlinear interference in highly-dispersed coherent optical links for which the Gaussian Noise model [1], [2] applies.

Optics · Physics 2013-09-03 Alberto Bononi , Ottma Beucher

We propose to combine multiple laser beams into a single diffraction-limited beam by the beam self-focusing (collapse) in the Kerr medium. The beams with the total power above critical are first combined in the near field and then…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Natalia Vladimirova

The propagation of the laser pulses in the underdense plasma is a very crucial aspect of laser-plasma interaction process. In this work, we explored the two regimes of laser propagation in plasma, one with $a_0 < 1$ and other with $a_0…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Shivani Choudhary , Amol R. Holkundkar

We develop an effective theory of pulse propagation in a nonlinear {\it and} disordered medium. The theory is formulated in terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation. Despite its apparent simplicity this equation describes novel phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkelstein

The distribution of radiation is investigated for the modeless laser having a multilobe mirror with the lobes (planes) inclined by small angles to optical axis. It is shown that change of the direction resulting from many passages of a ray…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael B. Mensky , Alexander V. Yurkin

We study the propagation of 0.05-1 TW power, ultrafast laser pulses in a 10 meter long rubidium vapor cell. The central wavelength of the laser is resonant with the $D_2$ line of rubidium and the peak intensity in the $10^{12}-10^{14}…

We study the coherence properties of a laser beam after propagation along a one-dimensional lossless nonlinear optical waveguide. Within the paraxial, slowly-varying-envelope, and single-transverse-mode approximations, the quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-18 P. -É. Larré , I. Carusotto

Turbulence is a challenging feature common to a wide range of complex phenomena. Random fibre lasers are a special class of lasers in which the feedback arises from multiple scattering in a one-dimensional disordered cavity-less medium.…

For incidence in the critical region, the propagation of gaussian lasers through triangular dielectric blocks is characterized by the joint action of angular deviations and lateral displacements. This mixed effect, known as composite…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-31 Stefano De Leo , Manoel P. Araújo , Gabriel G. Maia

The diffusion of electron-hole pairs, which are excited in an intrinsic graphene by the ultrashort focused laser pulse in mid-IR or visible spectral region, is described for the cases of peak-like or spread over the passive region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. T. Vasko , V. V. Mitin

The standard architecture for a high-peak-power femtosecond laser is chirped pulse amplification using diffraction gratings for compression; the damage threshold of the compression gratings limits current lasers to multi-petawatt peak…

We compare the properties of subwavelength imaging in the visible wavelength range for metal-dielectric multilayers operating in the canalization and the resonant tunnelling regimes. The analysis is based on the transfer matrix method and…

Optics · Physics 2008-12-05 R. Kotynski , T. Stefaniuk

Based on a re-formulation of the classical explanation of quantum mechanical Gaussian dispersion (Groessing et al. 2010) as well as interference of two Gaussians (Groessing et al. 2012), we present a new and more practical way of their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Johannes Mesa Pascasio , Siegfried Fussy , Herbert Schwabl , Gerhard Groessing

We consider combining of multiple laser beams into a single near diffraction-limited beam by beam self-focusing (collapse) in a Kerr medium. The beams with the total power above critical are combined in the near field and then propagated in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-30 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Natalia Vladimirova