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The radiation of an emitter does not depend only on its intrinsic properties but also on the surrounding photonic environment, the notion of which is essential in the developments of lasers, quantum optics and other light-matter interaction…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-03 Xing-Yuan Wang , Hua-Zhou Chen , Suo Wang , Li Ge , Shuang Zhang , Ren-Min Ma

Emission of photon pairs by metal-dielectric interface in case of a superluminally propagating laser-induced nonlinear polarization is considered. Using oblique incidence of the laser wave it is possible to tune frequencies of generated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Vladimir Hizhnyakov

Parity-Time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry has become an important concept in the design of synthetic optical materials, with exotic functionalities such as unidirectional transport and non-reciprocal reflection. At exceptional points, this…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-22 K. E. Ballantine , J. Ruostekoski

When two resonant modes in a system with gain or loss coalesce in both their resonance position and their width, a so-called "Exceptional Point" occurs which acts as a source of non-trivial physics in a diverse range of systems. Lasers…

Open-dissipative systems obeying parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry are capable of demonstrating oscillatory dynamics akin to the conservative systems. In contrast to limit cycle solutions characteristic of nonlinear systems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 I. Chestnov , Y. G. Rubo , A. Nalitov , A. Kavokin

Optically induced breaking of symmetries plays an important role in nonlinear photonics, with applications ranging from optical switching in integrated photonic circuits to soliton generation in ring lasers. In this work we study for the…

Microcavity polaritons are bosonic light-matter particles that can emit coherent radiation without electronic population inversion via bosonic scattering. This phenomenon, known as polariton lasing, strongly depends on the polaritons'…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-09 U. Czopak , M. Prilmüller , C. Schneider , S. Höfling , G. Weihs

A two-mode single-atom laser is considered, with the aim of generating entanglement in macroscopic light. Two transitions in the four-level gain medium atom independently interact with the two cavity modes, while two other transitions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kiffner , M. S. Zubairy , J. Evers , C. H. Keitel

Robust topological edge modes may evolve into complex-frequency modes when a physical system becomes non-Hermitian. We show that, while having negligible forward optical extinction cross section, a conjugate pair of such complex topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 C. W. Ling , Ka Hei Choi , T. C. Mok , Z. Q. Zhang , Kin Hung Fung

A system of two coupled semiconductor-based resonators is studied when lasing around an exceptional point. We show that the presence of nonlinear saturation effects can have important ramifications on the transition behavior of this system.…

We analyze the stability of a non-Hermitian coupler with respect to modulational inhomogeneous perturbations in the presence of unbalanced gain and loss. At the parity-time (PT) symmetry point the coupler is unstable. Suitable symmetry…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-06-28 Yannis Kominis , Tassos Bountis , Sergej Flach

Light beam carrying spatially varying state of polarization generates space varying Pancharatnam-Berry geometric phase while propagating through homogeneous anisotropic medium. We show that determination of such space varying geometric…

Exceptional points, also known as non-Hermitian degeneracies, have been observed in parity-time symmetric metasurfaces as the parity-time symmetry breaking point. However, the parity-time symmetry condition puts constraints on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Sang Hyun Park , Sung-Gyu Lee , Taewoo Ha , Sanghyup Lee , Soo-Jeong Baek , Bumki Min , Shuang Zhang , Mark Lawrence , Teun-Teun Kim

The method proposed in [I.R. Khairulin et al., JETP Letters 117(9), 652 (2023)] for converting the linearly polarized radiation of high-order harmonics of an optical field into the circularly polarized in an optically modulated active…

Numerous applications in the extreme field science are possible with circularly polarized high peak power ultrashort pulses. Commonly used quarter wave plates are not applicable here, while multi-mirror schemes are very complicated. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 E. M. Starodubtseva , I. N. Tsymbalov , D. A. Gorlova , K. A. Ivanov , A. B. Savel'ev

The exploration of non-Hermitian systems with parity-time (PT) symmetry has witnessed immense research interest both fundamentally and technologically in a wide range of subject areas in physics and engineering. One significant example of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Chao Zeng , Zhiwei Guo , Yong Sun , Guo Li , Kejia Zhu , Jun Jiang , Yunhui Li , Haitao Jiang , Yaping Yang , Hong Chen

The discovery of the spontaneous mode-locking of lasers, i.e., the synchronous oscillation of electromagnetic modes in a cavity, has been a milestone of photonics allowing the realization of oscillators delivering ultra-short pulses. This…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-15 Marco Leonetti , Claudio Conti , Cefe Lopez

We propose two non-Hermitian arrays consisting of $N=2l+1$ waveguides and exhibiting parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) or anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry for investigating light transfer dynamics based on $N$th-order exceptional points (EPs). The…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-23 Chuanxun Du , Gang Wang , Yan Zhang , Jin-Hui Wu

Perovskite based micro- and nano- lasers have attracted considerable research attention in past two years. However, the properties of perovskite devices are mostly fixed once they are synthesized. Here we demonstrate the tailoring of lasing…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-10 Kaiyang Wang , Zhiyuan Gu , Shuai Liu , Jiankai Li , Shumin Xiao , Qinghai Song

We study the laser regime of terahertz (THz) emission from a semiconductor microcavity in the strong coupling regime, where optical transitions between upper and lower exciton-polariton modes are allowed due to the mixing of the upper mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Elena del Valle , Alexey Kavokin