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Ultrafast atomic vibrations mediate heat transport, serve as fingerprints for chemical bonds and drive phase transitions in condensed matter systems. Light pulses shorter than the atomic oscillation period can not only probe, but even…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-06 Alexandra Voelkel , Georg Herink

Earlier implementations to simulate coherent wave propagation in one-dimensional potentials using acoustic phonons with gigahertz-terahertz frequencies were based on coupled nanoacoustic resonators. Here, we generalize the concept of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 O. Ortiz , M. Esmann , N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura

An accelerating photodetector is predicted to see photons in the electromagnetic vacuum. However, the extreme accelerations required have prevented the direct experimental verification of this quantum vacuum effect. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Hui Wang , Miles Blencowe

We show that a single, trapped, laser-driven atom in a high-finesse optical cavity allows for the quantum-coherent generation of entangled light pulses on demand. Schemes for generating simultaneous and temporally separated pulse pairs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giovanna Morigi , Jürgen Eschner , Stefano Mancini , David Vitali

Positron creation and acceleration is one of the major challenges for constructing future lepton colliders. On the one hand, conventional technology can provide a solution, but at a prohibitive cost and scale. On the other hand,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Bertrand Martinez , Robert Babjak , Marija Vranic

We have been developing optical resonant cavities for laser-Compton scattering experiment at the Accelerator Test Facility in KEK. The main subject of the R&D is to increase laser pulse energy by coherently accumulating the pulses in an…

A rapid and efficient method for generating laser beams with controlled intensity, phase and coherence distributions is presented. It is based on a degenerate cavity laser in which a digital phase-only spatial light modulator is…

Ultracold bosonic atoms in optical lattices self-organize into a variety of structural and quantum phases when placed into a single-mode cavity and pumped by a laser. Cavity optomechanical effects induce an atom density modulation at the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-14 Astrid E. Niederle , Giovanna Morigi , Heiko Rieger

We present here a simple laser system for a laser cooled atom interferometer, where all functions (laser cooling, interferometry and detection) are realized using only two extended cavity laser diodes, amplified by a common tapered…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sébastien Merlet , Laurent Volodimer , Michel Lours , Franck Pereira Dos Santos

The notion of nanomachines has recently emerged to engage and use collective action of ensembles of nanoscale components or systems. Here we present a heat-gradient driven nanomachine concept which through appropriate coupling between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Paweł Karwat , Doris E. Reiter , Tilmann Kuhn , Ortwin Hess

Cavity optomechanics has become a powerful tool to manipulate mechanical motion via optical fields. When driving an optomechanical cavity with blue-detuned laser the mechanical motion is amplified, ultimately resulting in phonon lasing. In…

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

The growing demand for dense, energy-efficient, and high-frequency signal processing continues to drive device miniaturization. While downscaling remains a central challenge, magnons offer a promising solution as nanoscale signal carriers,…

We demonstrate the analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency in a room temperature cavity optomechanics setup formed by a thin semitransparent membrane within a Fabry-P\'erot cavity. Due to destructive interference, a weak probe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-11 M. Karuza , C. Biancofiore , M. Bawaj , C. Molinelli , M. Galassi , R. Natali , P. Tombesi , G. Di Giuseppe , D. Vitali

We investigate the output generation of squeezed radiation of a cavity photon mode coupled to another off-resonant bosonic excitation. By modulating in time their linear interaction, we predict high degree of output squeezing when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-14 S. Fedortchenko , S. Huppert , A. Vasanelli , Y. Todorov , C. Sirtori , C. Ciuti , A. Keller , T. Coudreau , P. Milman

To date, realization of a continuous-wave active atomic clock has been elusive primarily due to parasitic heating from spontaneous emission while repumping the atoms. Here, we propose a solution to this problem by replacing the random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Jarrod T. Reilly , Simon B. Jäger , John Cooper , Murray J. Holland

The generation of stable short optical pulses in mode-locked lasers is of tremendous importance for many applications. Mode-locking is a broad concept that encompasses different processes enabling short pulse formation. It typically…

It is proposed a new method of compressing laser pulse by fast extending plasma gratings(FEPG), which is created by ionizing the hypersound wave generated by stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS) in the background gas. Ionized by a short…

A non-resonant cavity to build up laser intensity is modeled, developed and tested. It can be used for overlapping multiple lasers of different wavelengths, increasing their intensities by over an order of magnitude while maintaining good…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-03 Yi Zeng , Nicholas R. Hutzler

Superradiant lasers, which consist of incoherently driven atoms coupled to a lossy cavity, are a promising source of coherent light due to their stable frequency and superior narrow linewidth. We show that when a fraction of the atoms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Tobias Nadolny , Matteo Brunelli , Christoph Bruder