Related papers: Self-interfering wavepackets
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Advances in optical measurements enable precise tracking of cavity polariton wave-packets across broad spatial and temporal ranges, but how dephasing reshapes their real-space dynamics over multiple time scales remains unclear. Here we…
We visualized negative refraction of phonon polaritons, which occurs at the interface between two natural crystals. The polaritons - hybrids of infrared photons and lattice vibrations - form collimated rays that display negative refraction…
We characterize surface-plasmon polaritons at lossy planar interfaces between one dispersive and one nondispersive linear isotropic homogeneous media, i.e., materials or metamaterials. Specifically we solve Maxwell's equations to obtain…
We report an experimental study of group-velocity dispersion effect on an entangled two-photon wavepacket, generated via spontaneous parametric down-conversion and propagating through a dispersive medium. Even in the case of using CW laser…
Nonlinear optical wave propagation manifests in a multitude of frequencies generated from quantum-noise, and selecting desired nonlinear products usually requires seeding the medium with extraneous waves, employing spatial or spectral…
A solution of the Dirac equation in a strong laser field presenting a nonspreading wave packet in the rest frame of the electron is derived. It consists of a generalization of the self-accelerating free electron wave packet [Kaminer et al.…
Strong coupling between various kinds of material excitations and optical modes has recently shown potential to modify chemical reaction rates in both excited and ground states. The ground-state modification in chemical reaction rates has…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting microcavity, where exciton-polaritons can be formed, constitues a promising setup for exploring and manipulating various regimes of light-matter interaction. Here, the coupling between 2D excitons and…
We theoretically investigate the properties of phonon-polariton inhomogeneous harmonic wave, cnoidal wave and spatial soliton propagating in boundless dielectric medium and compute the shape of nonlinear vector polariton wave. We obtain…
Planar microcavity polaritons have recently emerged as a promising technology for improving several performance characteristics of organic light-emitting diodes, photodiodes and photovoltaics. To form polaritons and achieve enhanced…
The system of cavity polaritons driven by a plane electromagnetic wave is found to undergo the spontaneous breaking of spatial symmetry, which results in a lifted phase locking with respect to the driving field and, consequently, in the…
All known realizations of optical wave packets that accelerate along their propagation axis, such as Airy wave packets in dispersive media or wave-front-modulated X-waves, exhibit a constant acceleration; that is, the group velocity varies…
We consider two species of self-propelled point particles: A-particles and B-particles. The orientations between nearby particles are subject to pair interactions of different strength for A-A-, A-B-(=B-A-) and B-B-interactions,…