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Orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a recently proposed waveform for efficient data transfer in high-speed vehicular scenarios. The use of rectangular pulse shape in OTFS results in high out of band (OoB) radiation, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Shashank Tiwari , Suvra Sekhar Das

Coupling an emitter to a Fabry-P\'{e}rot optical cavity can provide a coherent and strong light-matter interface whose performance in a variety of applications depends critically on the emitter-photon coupling strength. Altering the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-21 William J. Hughes , Peter Horak

Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and a complementary representation of a causal waveform have been used to develop a sidelobe-free pulse-compression technique. Envelopes of radio-frequency (RF) pulses under study include both unimodal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 W. J. Szajnowski

Numerically optimised microwave pulses are used to increase excitation efficiency and modulation depth in electron spin resonance experiments performed on a spectrometer equipped with an arbitrary waveform generator. The optimisation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 David L. Goodwin , William K. Myers , Christiane R. Timmel , Ilya Kuprov

In this paper we present a Deformable Mirror (DM) based on the continuous voltage distribution over a resistive layer. This DM can correct the low order aberrations (defocus, astigmatism, coma and spherical aberration) using three…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Stefano Bonora

Complex systems are a proving ground for fundamental interactions between components and their collective emergent phenomena. Through intricate design, integrated photonics offers intriguing nonlinear interactions that create new patterns…

The absorption of traveling photons resonant with electric dipole transitions of an atomic gas naturally leads to electric dipole spin wave excitations. For a number of applications, it would be highly desirable to shape and coherently…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Yizun He , Lingjing Ji , Yuzhuo Wang , Liyang Qiu , Jian Zhao , Yudi Ma , Xing Huang , Saijun Wu , Darrick E. Chang

We study theoretically and experimentally the influence of temporally shaping the light pulses in an atom interferometer, with a focus on the phase response of the interferometer. We show that smooth light pulse shapes allow rejecting high…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-12-22 Bess Fang , Nicolas Mielec , Denis Savoie , Matteo Altorio , Arnaud Landragin , Remi Geiger

Nonlinear metasurfaces are multifunctional photonic elements that generate and control light, enabling multiple proof-of-principle applications, such as in nonlinear holography, beam shaping, and nanoscale sources of entangled photon pairs.…

We propose dynamical Bragg mirrors as a means to compress intense short optical pulses. We show that strong-field photoexcitation of carriers changes the refractive index of the layers and leads to motion of the resonance-defined boundary…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-16 Zukhriddin Ruziev , Kazuhiro Yabana , Anton Husakou

Wavefront shaping is a technique to study and control light transport inside scattering media. Wavefront shaping is considered to be applicable to any complex material, yet in most previous studies, the only sample geometries that are…

Flying focus techniques produce laser pulses whose focal points travel at arbitrary, controllable velocities. While this flexibility can enhance a broad range of laser-based applications, existing techniques constrain the motion of the…

We demonstrate a tilted pulse-front transient grating technique that allows to optimally utilize time-resolution as well as transient grating line density while probing under grazing incidence as typically done in extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-29 A. Battistoni , H. A. Dürr , M. Gühr , T. J. A. Wolf

The aberrations induced by the sample and/or by the sample holder limit the resolution of optical microscopes. Wavefront correction can be achieved using a deformable mirror with wavefront sensorless optimization algorithms but, despite the…

We examine properties of an ultrashort laser pulse propagating through an artificial Saturable Absorber based on Nonlinear Polarization Evolution device which has been realized with Polarization Maintaining fibers only (PM NPE). We study…

A novel time-reversal subwavelength transmission technique, based on pulse shaping circuits (PSCs), is proposed. This technique removes the need for complex or electrically large electromagnetic structures by generating channel diversity…

This paper presents premier and innovative time-domain multi-scale method for shape identification in electro-sensing using pulse-type signals. The method is based on transform-invariant shape descriptors computed from filtered polarization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-15 Habib Ammari , Han Wang

We optimize the pulse shape and polarization of time-dependent electric fields to maximize the production of electron-positron pairs via strong field quantum electrodynamics processes. The pulse is parametrized in Fourier space by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 François Fillion-Gourdeau , Florian Hebenstreit , Denis Gagnon , Steve MacLean

The advent of ultrahigh-power femtosecond lasers creates a need for optical components suitable to handle ultrahigh light intensities. Due to the unavoidable laser-induced ionization of matter, these components will have to be based on a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 H. Vincenti , S. Monchocé , S. Kahaly , Ph. Martin , F. Quéré

We demonstrate a dispersive measurement pulse shaping technique that allows for arbitrarily fast quantum non-demolition, single-quadrature measurements of non-linear systems and unconditionally leaves the measurement resonator empty. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Felix Motzoi , Lukas Buchmann , Christian DIckel