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We present a mechanism to generate unidirectional pulse-shaped propagating waves, tamed to exponential growth and dispersion, in active systems with nonreciprocal and nonlinear couplings. In particular, when all bulk modes are exponentially…
We investigate the nonlinear response of photonic crystal waveguides with suppressed two-photon absorption. A moderate decrease of the group velocity (~ c/6 to c/15, a factor of 2.5) results in a dramatic (30x) enhancement of three-photon…
We treat theoretically the two-pulse plane-wave propagation problem associated with the stimulated Raman process. A strong pump pulse and a weak probe pulse interact self-consistently during mutual propagation through a medium in the…
We have developed a coupled-mode analysis framework for superconducting travelling-wave parametric amplifiers using the full Telegrapher's equations to incorporate loss-related behaviour. Our model provides an explanation of previous…
Kinetic inductance travelling wave parametric amplifiers (KI-TWPAs) have been simulated using Keysight's Advanced Design System (ADS). A lumped element representation of a superconducting transmission line has been developed using nonlinear…
All-optical signal processing is envisioned as an approach to dramatically decrease power consumption and speed up performance of next-generation optical telecommunications networks. Nonlinear optical effects, such as four-wave mixing (FWM)…
We measure the temperature dependence of the two-photon absorption and optical Kerr nonlinearity of a silicon waveguide over a range of temperatures from 5.5 to 300 K at a wavelength of 1.55 {\mu}m. The two-photon absorption coefficient is…
We report on a stable form of pulsed electroluminescence in a dopant-free direct bandgap semiconductor heterostructure which we coin the tidal effect. Swapping an inducing gate voltage in an ambipolar field effect transistor allows incoming…
Field enhancement of two-photon absorption from a 50-fs pulse on a silicon ridge waveguide is simulated for a varying energy downward propagating 800+/-9.42 nm wavelength plane-wave orthonormal to a waveguide in 2D FDTD using ANSYS…
Kerr frequency comb generation relies on dedicated waveguide platforms that are optimized towards ultralow loss while offering comparatively limited functionality restricted to passive building blocks. In contrast to that, the…
Phase sensitive amplifiers (PSAs) have the potential to empower substantial advances in emerging generations of optical communication systems as well as classical and quantum on-chip signal processing. The core building block of a PSA is a…
We present polarization-resolved transient transmission measurements on multi-layer black phosphorus. Background free two-color pump-probe spectroscopy measurements are carried out on mechanically exfoliated black phosphorus flakes that…
First measurements are presented from a newly commissioned two-photon absorption (TPA) setup at Nikhef. The characterisation of the various components of the system is discussed. Two planar silicon sensors, one being electron collecting and…
We experimentally demonstrate two-photon absorption (TPA) with broadband down-converted light (squeezed vacuum). Although incoherent and exhibiting the statistics of a thermal noise, broadband down-converted light can induce TPA with the…
The propagation of a weak probe field in a four-level N-type quantum system in the presence of spontaneously generated coherence (SGC) is theoretically investigated. The optical properties of the system are studied and it is shown that the…
We extend the powerful frequency-domain analysis of femtosecond two-photon absorption to the intermediate-field regime, which involves both two- and four-photon transitions. Consequently, we find a broad family of shaped pulses that enhance…
Nonlinear kinetic inductance in a high Q superconducting coplanar waveguide microresonator can cause a bifurcation of the resonance curve. Near the critical pumping power and frequency for bifurcation, large parametric gain is observed for…
All-optical amplification of the light pulse in a weakly coupled two nonlinear photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs) is proposed. We consider pillar-type PCWs, which consist of the periodically distributed circular rods made from a Kerr-type…
Propagation of a weak Gaussian probe pulse through a closed loop $\Lambda$ system with permanent dipole moments (PDMs) is investigated in presence of a strong control field along with a third field. The presence of PDMs allows multi photon…
This paper reports the observation of ultra-superluminal pulse propagation in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple contact heterostuctures in a superradiant emission regime, and shows definitively that it is a different class of emission from conventional…