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We propose the application of nonlinear optics for studies of spatially indirect excitons in coupled quantum wells. We demonstrate, that despite their vanishing oscillator strength, indirect excitons can strongly contribute to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. V. Nalitov , M. Vladimirova , A. V. Kavokin , L. V. Butov , N. A. Gippius

We study electric polarization and nonlinear optical effects in spin systems with broken inversion symmetry. We apply strong coupling expansion to the underlying electronic Hamiltonians, and systematically derive expressions for electric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Takahiro Morimoto , Sota Kitamura , Shun Okumura

A theoretical study of wave propagation in 1D metamaterial is presented. A system of nonlinear evolution equation for electromagnetic waves with both polarizations account is derived by means of projection operators method for general…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 Dmitrii Ampilogov , Sergey Leble

The influence of quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field on the propagation of a polarized light wave in a nonlinear dielectric is investigated. It is shown that in some cases, the fluctuations couple to the optical nonlinearities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 V. A. De Lorenci , L. H. Ford

We consider the optical theorem for scattering of electromagnetic waves in nonlinear media. This result is used to obtain the power extinguished from a field by a nonlinear scatterer. The cases of second harmonic generation and the Kerr…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-01 Wei Li , John C. Schotland

We theoretically investigate the nonlinear effects in a hybrid quantum optomechanical system consisting of two optically coupled semiconductor microcavities containing a quantum dot and a Kerr nonlinear substrate.The steady state behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Sonam Mahajan , Aranya B Bhattacherjee

We show that optical nonlinearities allow sub-wavelength beams to propagate in circular trajectories without being attenuated in spite of their partially evanescent spectrum. Such beams are exact solutions to Maxwell's equations with Kerr…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-27 Ido Kaminer , Mordechai Segev

The excitation of soliton states in optical layers exhibiting Kerr nonlinearities is theoretically investigated. The optical transmission coefficient is obtained as a function of the nonlinearity power of an incident monochromatic…

Irradiation of the strong light on the material leads to numerous non-linear effects that are essential to understand the physics of excited states of the system and for optoelectronics. Here, we study the non-linear thermoelectric effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Pankaj Bhalla

We uncover a previously overlooked contribution to the electro-optic Kerr rotation of reflected light, arising from the interplay of matter, the static electric field, and the magnetic component of light. This contribution remains nonzero…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Erlend Syljuåsen , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Rembert A. Duine , Arne Brataas

We conduct an experimental investigation of nonlinearity management in optics using femtosecond pulses and layered Kerr media consisting of glass and air. By examining the propagation properties over several diffraction lengths, we show…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Centurion , Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis , Demetri Psaltis

The contour integration technique applied to calculate the optical conductivity tensor at finite temperatures in the case of inhomogeneous surface layered systems within the framework of the spin-polarized relativistic screened…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Vernes , L. Szunyogh , P. Weinberger

In common sense, postselected weak amplification must be related to destructive interference effect of the meter system, and a single photon exerts no effect on thermal field via cross-phasemodulation (XPM) interaction. In this Letter we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Tao Wang , Lin-Hai Jiang , Gang Li , Chang-Bao Fu , Xue-Mei Su

The effect of the Kerr nonlinearity on linear non-diffractive Bessel beams is investigated analytically and numerically using the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The nonlinearity is shown to primarily affect the central parts of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pontus Johannisson , Dan Anderson , Mietek Lisak , Mattias Marklund

There are a variety of nonlinear optical effects including higher harmonic generations, photovoltaic effects, and nonlinear Kerr rotations. They are realized by the strong light irradiation to materials that results in nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

Optical properties of a one-dimensional photonic structure consisting of Kerr-type nonlinear and magnetic layers under the action of an external static magnetic field in the Faraday geometry are investigated. The structure is a periodic…

We propose a new method of resonant enhancement of optical Kerr nonlinearity using multi-level atomic coherence. The enhancement is accompanied by suppression of the other linear and nonlinear susceptibility terms of the medium. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. B. Matsko , I. Novikova , G. R. Welch , M. S. Zubairy

A transparent material exhibits ultra-fast optical nonlinearity and is subject to optical pressure if irradiated by a laser beam. However, the effect of nonlinearity on optical pressure is often overlooked, even if a nonlinear optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Claudio Conti , Robert Boyd

Cavity-free optical nonreciprocity components, which have an inherent strong asymmetric interaction between the forward- and backward-propagation direction of the probe field, are key to produce such as optical isolators and circulators.…

We propose a microscopic mechanism to electrically reconfigure the Kerr nonlinearity by modulating the concentration of free electrons in heavily doped semiconductors under a static bias. Our theory incorporates electrostatic and…