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Broadband laser sources based on supercontinuum generation by femtosecond laser filamentation have enabled applications from stand-off sensing and spectroscopy to the generation and self-compression of high-energy few-cycle pulses.…

We consider backscattering of laser pulses in strongly-magnetized plasma mediated by kinetic magnetohydrodynamic waves. Magnetized low-frequency scattering, which can occur when the external magnetic field is neither perpendicular nor…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Matthew R. Edwards , Yuan Shi , Julia M. Mikhailova , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Structured {\gamma} rays, particularly cylindrical vector {\gamma} rays, offer promising tools for sub-nuclear imaging and polarization-sensitive probes in fundamental research and applications, but conventional optical methods face great…

A novel method is presented for generating radiation using the beat wave associated with a bi-frequency laser pulse, to excite plasma oscillations in a plasma slab with a density gradient. By resonantly exciting a plasma wave, it can be…

We modify the conventional curvature radiation (inverse Compton scattering) + synchrotron radiation polar cap cascade model by including the inverse Compton scattering of the higher generation pairs. Within the framework of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bing Zhang , Alice K. Harding

Consider binary system with a millisecond pulsar ejecting relativistic particles and an optical star emitting soft photons with the energy $\omega \simeq 1-10$ eV. These low-energy photons are scattered by the relativistic electrons and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. A. Chernyakova , A. F. Illarionov

We calculate the beaming of coherent emission by means of geometrical optics. When spherical elementary waves are phase-coupled in that way that constructive interference occurs along one axis, the intensity is lower for off-axis viewing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Kunzl , Harald Lesch , Axel Jessner

Impacts of spin-polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with a strong laser pulse on emitted photon spectra and electron dynamics have been investigated in the quantum radiation regime. We simulate photon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Yan-Fei Li , Ren-Tong Guo , Rashid Shaisultanov , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Jian-Xing Li

The spectrum width can be narrowed to a certain degree by decreasing the coupling strength for the two-level emitter coupled to the propagating surface plasmon. But the width can not be narrowed any further because of the loss of the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 J. Yang , G. W. Lin , Y. P. Niu , Y. H. Qi , F. X. Zhou , S. Q. Gong

Linewidth-tunable lasers have great application requirements in the fields of high-resolution spectroscopy, optical communications and other industry and scientific research. Here, the switchable plasmonic scattering of the metal particles…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-23 Xiaoyu Shi , Zhixing Xu , Yaoxing Bian , Qing Chang , Hongbiao Cui , Dahe Liu , Zhaona Wang

Currently, no light source exists which is both narrow-band and speckle-free with sufficient brightness for full-field imaging applications. Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are excellent spatially incoherent sources, but are tens of nanometers…

Observing simultaneously pulsed radio and gamma-ray emission from these stars helps to constrain the geometry and radiation mechanisms within their magnetosphere and to localize the multiple photon production sites. In this paper, we fit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 J. Pétri , D. Mitra

A laser pulse composed of a fundamental and an appropriately phased second harmonic can drive a time-dependent current of photoionized electrons that generates broadband THz radiation. Over the propagation distances relevant to many…

Polarized neutron scattering is a very important analysis technique for studies of magnetism, spintronics, and high-sensitivity measurements, among others, offering invaluable information. Yet, the efficiency of such experiments rely on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 A. Zubayer , N. Ghafoor , A. Glavic , J. Stahn , M. Lorentzon , A. Le Febvrier , P. Eklund , J. Birch , F. Eriksson

A high-quality narrowband polarization-entangled source in the telecom band is preferred to avoid frequency dispersion for long-distance transmission in optical fibers and to efficiently couple with telecom band quantum memories. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Ming-Yuan Gao , Yin-Hai Li , Yan Li , Zhenghe Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Bao-Sen Shi

Compton scattering within the accretion column of magnetic cataclysmic variables (mCVs) can induce a net polarization in the X-ray emission. We investigate this process using Monte Carlo simulations and find that significant polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aimee McNamara , Zdenka Kuncic , Kinwah Wu

In this paper we present a novel scheme for the controlled generation of of tunable narrowband gamma-ray radiation by ultra-relativistic positron beams inside acoustically driven periodically bent crystals. A novel acoustic crystalline…

The spectrum of relativistic electron bunches with large energy dispersion is hardly obtainable with conventional magnetic spectrometers. We present a novel spectroscopic concept, based on the analysis of the photons generated by Thomson…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 P. Tomassini , M. Galimberti , A. Giulietti , D. Giulietti , L. A. Gizzi , L. Labate

The cascade of resonant topological structures with $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry breaking is shown to emit laser light with a frequency-comb spectrum. We consider optically active topological Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper lattices supporting edge-modes…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Laura Pilozzi , Claudio Conti

Multi-level exciton-polariton systems offer an attractive platform for studies of non-linear optical phenomena. However, studies of such consequential non-linear phenomena as polariton condensation and lasing in planar microcavities have so…

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