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In this letter, the impact of pump configuration on the modal instabilities (MI) threshold of high power fiber amplifiers is investigated. Using a time dependent computer model based on the optical beam propagation method (BPM), the effect…
Superconducting parametric amplifiers have great promise for quantum-limited readout of superconducting qubits and detectors. Until recently, most superconducting parametric amplifiers had been based on resonant structures, limiting their…
Stochastic resonance is a counter-intuitive concept[1,2], ; the addition of noise to a noisy system induces coherent amplification of its response. First suggested as a mechanism for the cyclic recurrence of ice ages, stochastic resonance…
Theory of monochromatic wave field amplification in a waveguide array based on expansion of the wave field in terms of guided array modes is developed. Equations for the expansion coefficients include cross-modal gain, which completely…
Many of the systems that appear in various signal processing applications are non-linear, for example, due to hardware impairments such as non-linear amplifiers and finite-resolution quantization. The Bussgang decomposition is a popular…
Nonlinear Heisenberg-Langevin equations are solved analytically by operator Fourier-expansion for the laser in the LED regime. Fluctuations of populations of lasing levels are taken into account as perturbations. Spectra of operator…
At strong pump powers, a semiconductor optical cavity passes through a Hopf bifurcation and undergoes self-oscillation. We simulate this device using semiclassical Langevin equations and assess the effect of quantum fluctuations on the…
Nonlinear hopping absorption of ultrasound and electromagnetic waves in amorphous and doped semiconductors is considered. It is shown that even at low amplitudes of the electric (or acoustic) field the nonlinear corrections to the…
The presence of critical resonances in microwave power amplifiers has a negative impact on its behavior and performance. These critical resonances are usually predicted from pole-zero stability simulations. In this paper, a different and…
The amplitude and phase of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations have been analyzed in detail for two-dimensional electron gases subjected to a weak unidirectional periodic potential modulation. The amplitude is suppressed, accompanied by…
Several transverse noise sources, such as power supply ripples, can potentially act as an important limiting mechanism for the luminosity production of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its future High-Luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC). In the…
It has been found that some text-books show LC-oscillators that may not work as assumed. Thus, the typical example showing a LC-oscillator driven by a voltage operational-amplifier is simply wrong. The difficulty stems from the fact that…
Motivated by studies on current magnification in quantum mesoscopic systems we consider sound and heat transmission in classical models of oscillator chains. A loop of coupled oscillators is connected to two leads through which one can…
The theory of feedback integrators is extended to handle mechanical systems with nonholonomic constraints with or without symmetry, so as to produce numerical integrators that preserve the nonholonomic constraints as well as other conserved…
Linear constraints are the linear counterpart of Haskell's class constraints. Linearly typed parameters allow the programmer to control resources such as file handles and manually managed memory as linear arguments. Indeed, a linear type…
An effect is considered of alternating (high-frequency) current on the spin-valve type magnetic junction configuration. The stability with respect to small fluctuations is investigated in the macrospin approximation. When the current…
The possibility of applying stacks of capacitive and inductively coupled and synchronized Josephson junctions as either high radiation power or wideband current controlled terahertz modulator is proposed and investigated. The properties of…
We report the observation of nonlinearity-induced broadening of resonances in dynamically modulated directional couplers. When the refractive index of the guiding channels in the coupler is harmonically modulated along the propagation…
The use of distributed amplifiers may have some potential advantages for the transmission of quantum information through optical fibers. In addition to the quantum noise introduced by the amplifiers, entanglement between atoms in the…
The Self-Excited Loop (SEL) architecture, used in some continuous-wave (CW) superconducting linacs, relies on a positive feedback mechanism that requires carefully defined operating limits to ensure stable operation. These limits are…