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Ultrashort pulsed lasers, operating through the phenomenon of mode-locking, have played a significant role in many facets of our society for 50 years, for example in the way we exchange information, measure and diagnose diseases, process…

We make an adaptation of laser modelling equations to describe the behavior of a phonon laser (saser). Our saser consists of an AlGaAs/GaAs double barrier heterostructure designed to generate an intense beam of transversal acoustic (TA)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. Camps , S. S. Makler

Phonon lasers, as the counterpart of photonic lasers, have been intensively studied in a large variety of systems, however, (all) most of them are based on the directly coherent pumping. Intuitively, dissipation is an unfavorable factor for…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-26 Qiankun Zhang , Cheng Yang , Jiteng Sheng , Haibin Wu

Phonon lasers, as their photon counterparts, rely on the physics of stimulated emission. Arguably, because light does not require a material substrate to propagate, while sound does, the impact of the two technologies has however been…

The ultrafast switching of magnetization in multiferroic materials by a femtosecond laser could provide various advantages in photonics and magnonics. An efficient approach to control the light matter interaction is the modulation of…

The phonon-induced dephasing dynamics in optically excited semiconductor quantum dots is studied within the frameworks of the independent Boson model and optimal control. We show that appropriate tailoring of laser pulses allows a complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ulrich Hohenester , Georg Stadler

Planar microcavities with distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) host, besides confined optical modes, also mechanical resonances due to stop bands in the phonon dispersion relation of the DBRs. These resonances have frequencies in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Czerniuk , C. Brueggemann , J. Tepper , S. Brodbeck , C. Schneider , M. Kamp , S. Hoefling , B. A. Glavin , D. R. Yakovlev , A. V. Akimov , M. Bayer

Light generation through optical harmonics plays a pivotal role in photonics, driving innovations in coherent light sources, biological imaging, and spectroscopy. Traditional methods for tuning optical harmonics, including electrostatic…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 George Trivizas , Matthew D. Feinstein , Euclides Almeida

Lasers differ from other light sources in that they are coherent, and their coherence makes them indispensable to both fundamental research and practical application. In optomechanical cavities, phonon and photon lasing is facilitated by…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-16 Jian Xiong , Zhilei Huang , Kaiyu Cui , Xue Feng , Fang Liu , Wei Zhang , Yidong Huang

We propose that the optomechanical systems can be potential platforms to implement the Fr\"{o}hlich condensate of phonons. We consider a one-dimensional array of membranes coupled to the cavity field via a quadratic interaction, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Xu Zheng , Baowen Li

The aim of this work is to describe the behavior of a device capable to generate high frequency (~THz) acoustic phonons. This device consists in a GaAs-AlGaAs double barrier heterostructure that, when an external bias is applied, produces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Camps , S. S. Makler , H. M. Pastawski , L. E. F. Foa Torres

A picosecond acoustic pulse can be used to control the lasing emission from semiconductor nanostructures by shifting their electronic transitions. When the active medium, here an ensemble of (In,Ga)As quantum dots, is shifted into or out of…

We review the conventional phase-locking technique in the long-term stabilization of the mode-locked fiber laser and investigate the phase noise limitation of the conventional technique. To break the limitation, we propose an improved…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-12 Dong Hou , Bo Ning , Shuangyou Zhang , Jiutao Wu , Jianye Zhao

Coupled laser arrays exhibit rich and complex physical properties, making them powerful tools for exploring a wide range of phenomena. They enable efficient ground-state optimization of complex landscapes, solve computational problems,…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-10 Simon Mahler

Laser engineered exciton-polariton networks could lead to dynamically configurable integrated optical circuitry and quantum devices. Combining cavity optomechanics with electrodynamics in laser configurable hybrid designs constitutes a…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-17 P. Sesin , S. Anguiano , A. E. Bruchhausen , A. Lemaître , A. Fainstein

We study the control of quantum resonances in photonic crystals with electromagnetically induced transparency driven by microwave field. In addition to the control laser, the intensity and phase of the maser can alter the transmission and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pankaj K. Jha , C. Y. Lee , C. H. Raymond Ooi

We demonstrate low-power amplification process in cavity optomechanics (COM). This operation is based on the nonlinear position-modulated self-Kerr interaction. Owing to this nonlinear term, the effective coupling highly scales with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 P. Djorwe , Y. Pennec , B. Djafari-Rouhani

We propose a possibility of a phonon laser by coupling a Bose-Einstein condensate to a nanomechanical cantilever with a magnetic tip. Due to the magnetic coupling, atomic spin flips induce cantilever motion which can be used to produce a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-09-17 Aranya B. Bhattacherjee , Tobias Brandes

Nonlinear topological photonic and phononic systems have recently aroused intense interests in exploring new phenomena that have no counterparts in electronic systems. The squeezed bosonic interaction in these systems is particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Xiang Xi , Jingwen Ma , Xiankai Sun

We report a new method of two-pathway coherent control using three narrow-band cw laser sources, phase locked in an optical phase-lock loop, to maintain the high degree of optical coherence required for the coherent control process. In…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Jonah A. Quirk , Carol E. Tanner , D. S. Elliott