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Specific features of nonlinear interference processes at quantum transitions in near- and fully-resonant optically-dense Doppler-broadened medium are studied. The feasibility of overcoming of the fundamental limitation on a…

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Control of optical properties of materials by tuning their refractive index can revolutionize the current state-of-the-art technology to manipulate light propagation in the high loss media. Here we demonstrate active optical tuning of the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-25 Elif Ozturk , Hira Asif , Mehmet Gunay , Mehmet Emre Tasgin , Ramazan Sahin

We discuss the feasibility of negative refraction with reduced absorption in coherently driven atomic media. Coherent coupling of an electric and a magnetic dipole transition by laser fields induces magneto-electric cross-coupling and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jürgen Kästel , Michael Fleischhauer , Susanne F. Yelin , Ronald L. Walsworth

We study the linear $(\alpha^{(1)} )$, nonlinear $(\alpha^{(3)})$ and total $(\alpha)$ optical absorptions of position-dependent mass oscillators (PDMOs). We consider three mass distributions $(m(x,\lambda))$ used to describe semiconducting…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-05 J. P. G. Nascimento , I. Guedes

Optical microcavities and metallic nanostructures have been shown to significantly modulate the dynamics and spectroscopic response of molecular systems. We present a study of the nonlinear optics of a model consisting of $N$ anharmonic…

Applications of negative index materials (NIM) presently are severely limited by absorption. Next to improvements of metamaterial designs, it has been suggested that dense gases of atoms could form a NIM with negligible losses. In such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-23 P. P. Orth , R. Hennig , C. H. Keitel , J. Evers

Materials combining both a high refractive index and a wide band gap are of great interest for optoelectronic and sensor applications. However, these two properties are typically described by an inverse correlation with high refractive…

The interaction between light's angular momentum (AM) and material systems has unlocked new avenues in structured photonics, including in magneto-optical (MO) materials. While spin angular momentum (SAM) effects in MO systems are…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 Seth Nelson , Cong Yu , Daniel Watson , Shahrzad Ramtinfard , Miguel Levy

We introduce the concept of resonant optical torque that allows enhancing substantially a transfer of optical angular momentum (AM) of light to a subwavelength particle. We consider high-index cylindrical dielectric nanoparticles supporting…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-30 Ivan Toftul , Mihail Petrov , Romain Quidant , Yuri Kivshar

We consider nonlinear spectroscopic effects - interaction-enhanced double resonance and spectrum instability - that appear in ultracold quantum gases owing to collisional frequency shift of atomic transitions and, consequently, due to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-12 Alexander Safonov , Irina Safonova , Igor Yasnikov

We survey the inclusion of interferometric elements in nonlinear spectroscopy performed with quantum light. Controlled interference of electromagnetic fields coupled to matter can induce constructive or destructive contributions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Shahaf Asban , Konstantin E. Dorfman , Shaul Mukamel

The aims of the reported work are to provide new insights into the quantum dot optical properties confined in an inverse of a quadratic Hellmann potential. The Schr\"odinger equation is solved using the Nikiforov-Uvarov (NU) method, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 L. Máthé , C. P. Onyenegecha , A. -A. Farcaş , L. -M. Pioraş-Ţimbolmaş , M. Solaimani , H. Hassanabadi

The effects of coherence of quantum transitions and the interference of resonant nonlinear optical processes on the spectra of absorption, amplification, and nonlinear-optical generation are considered. The most favorable conditions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Popov

The refractive index of a matter is foundational to quantify the light-matter interaction of the medium. However, the classical description of refractive index is based on macroscopic homogenization and is limited to describing the local…

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Optical absorption properties of magnetoexcitons in topological insulator bilayers under a strong magnetic field are theoretically studied. A general analytical formula of optical absorption selection rule is obtained in the noninteracting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Zhigang Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang

Nonreciprocal elements are a vital building block of electrical and optical systems. In the infrared regime, there is a particular interest in structures that break reciprocity because their thermal absorptive (and emissive) properties…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-15 Komron Shayegan , Bo Zhao , Yonghwi Kim , Shanhui Fan , Harry Atwater

We elaborate that many non-excitonic dielectric and optical properties of semiconductors and insulators caused by interband absorption are originated from quantum geometry, including charge susceptibility, relative dielectric constant,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Wei Chen

Time-invariant photonic structures amplify or absorb light based on their intrinsic material gain or loss. The coherent interference of multiple beams in space, e.g., in a resonator, can be exploited to tailor the wave interaction with…

High index dielectric nanoantennas excited at Mie-type resonances have exhibited enormous enhancement of optical nonlinearity. Such nanostructures have been actively studied by researchers in the last years. The present work provides the…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-10 Andrey V. Panov

The extraordinary properties of laser-induced transparency of a negative-index slab and parametric amplification for a backward-wave signal are investigated. The effects of the idler absorption and phase mismatch on the amplification of the…