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In this paper we perform a fusion between two important theoretical methodologies, one related to the Frozen Wave beams, which are non-diffracting beams whose longitudinal intensity pattern can be chosen a priori in an medium (absorbing or…

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Space-time wave packets can propagate invariantly in free space with arbitrary group velocity thanks to the spatio-temporal correlation. Here it is proved that the space-time wave packets are stable in dispersive media as well and free from…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Hao He , Cheng Guo , Meng Xiao

We develop a general method allowing one to construct the consistent theory of light pulse propagation through an atomic medium in arbitrary nonlinear regime with respect to the field strength, taking into account the light polarization,…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 V. I. Yudin , M. Yu. Basalaev , D. V. Brazhnikov , A. V. Taichenachev

Radio waves propagating from distant pulsars in the interstellar medium (ISM), are refracted by electron density inhomogeneities, so that the intensity of observed pulses fluctuates with time. The theory relating the observed pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stanislav Boldyrev , Carl R. Gwinn

We develop an effective theory of pulse propagation in a nonlinear {\it and} disordered medium. The theory is formulated in terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation. Despite its apparent simplicity this equation describes novel phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkelstein

Differentiation along algorithms, i.e., piggyback propagation of derivatives, is now routinely used to differentiate iterative solvers in differentiable programming. Asymptotics is well understood for many smooth problems but the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Jérôme Bolte , Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter

We study the nonlinear propagation of truncated Airyprime pulses in optical fibers with both anomalous or normal dispersion. Weobservenonlinear self-accelerating pulses with notable red-shifted spectral notch (double peaks) or blue-shifted…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-28 Lifu Zhang , Xuri Yang , Qi Huang , Yanxia Gao , Dianyuan Fan

We apply expansion methods to obtain an approximate expression in terms of elementary functions for the space and time dependence of wave packets in a dispersive medium. The specific application to pulses in a cold plasma is considered in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Borge Nodland

The long-standing paradox of the linear polarization signal of the Na i D1 line was recently resolved by accounting for the atom's hyperfine structure and the detailed spectral structure of the incident radiation field. That modeling relied…

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Using a 3D Finite-Difference Time-Domain parallel code, we report on the linear and nonlinear propagation of light pulses in a disordered assembly of scatterers, whose spatial distribution is generated by a Molecular Dynamics code;…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudio Conti , Luca Angelani , Giancarlo Ruocco

Diffraction-free optical beams propagate freely without change in shape and scale. Monochromatic beams that avoid diffractive spreading require two-dimensional transverse profiles, and there are no corresponding solutions for profiles…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-02 H. Esat Kondakci , Ayman F. Abouraddy

Motivated by the growing importance of the fidelity and fidelity susceptibility (FS) in quantum critical phenomena, we use these concepts to describe the pulse propagation inside the dispersive media. It is found that there is a dramatic…

Optics · Physics 2009-04-01 Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Jian Gu

By using Dazzler system and tilting compressor grating, we provide an effective way of using the laser group delay dispersion (GDD) to continuously steer the high energy electron beam which is accelerated by asymmetric laser-wakefield. The…

The Poynting vector, energy density and energy velocity of light pulses propagating in anomalous dispersion medium (used in WKD-like experiments) are calculated. Results show that a negative energy density in the medium propagates along…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chao-Guang Huang , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

Although diffractive spreading is an unavoidable feature of all wave phenomena, certain waveforms can attain propagation-invariance. A lesser-explored strategy for achieving optical selfsimilar propagation exploits the modification of the…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-25 H. Esat Kondakci , Ayman F. Abouraddy

Lenses are typically based on refractive index profiles derived from the geometric approximation of high-frequency waves, yet the critical issue of impedance mismatch is often neglected. Mismatched devices suffer from unwanted reflections…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-18 Sebastiano Cominelli

This work reports the performances of straight and bent active normal dispersion decreasing fibers (NDDF), with spatial nonlinear variation, to form parabolic self-similar pulses. The core radius changes along the NDDF length, thereby…

Optics · Physics 2009-12-21 Dipankar Ghosh , Mousumi Basu

Nonlinear effects in pulse propagation through a medium consisting of four-level double-$\Lambda$-type systems are studied theoretically. We apply three continous-wave driving fields and a pulsed probe field such that they form a closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert Fleischhaker , Jörg Evers

Space-time (ST) wave packets are a class of pulsed optical beams whose spatio-temporal spectral structure results in propagation invariance, tunable group velocity, and fascinating refractive phenomena. Here, we investigate the refraction…

The additional degree of freedom as introduced by the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has revolutionized the various technological applications. Optical pulses with OAM have applications in the generation of twisted attosecond…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-11 Shakti Singh , AKhilesh Kumar Mishra