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We consider the interaction between a particle beam and a propagating electromagnetic wave in the presence of a metamaterial. We show that the introduction of a metamaterial gives rise to a novel dispersion curve which determines a unique…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. S. Tan , R. Seviour

Supersonic beams are a prevalent source of cold molecules utilized in the study of chemical reactions, atom interferometry, gas-surface interactions, precision spectroscopy, molecular cooling and more. The triumph of this method emanates…

Parametric amplification -- injecting energy into waves via periodic modulation of system parameters -- is typically restricted to specific multiples of the modulation frequency. However, broadband parametric amplification can be achieved…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-01 Noah Kruss , Jayson Paulose

High-gain and low-noise signal amplification is a valuable tool in various cryogenic microwave experiments. A microwave optomechanical device, in which a vibrating capacitor modulates the frequency of a microwave cavity, is one technique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Martijn A. Cohen , Daniel Bothner , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Gary A. Steele

We use a $^{87}\text{Rb}$ atomic vapor, suitable for an optically-pumped magnetometer (OPM) in Earth-field conditions, to study the noise properties of three strategies for generating pulsed optical pumping. We compare a frequency-modulated…

We report on the experimental realization of an atom optical device, that allows scanning of an atomic beam. We used a time-modulated evanescent wave field above a glass surface to diffract a continuous beam of metastable Neon atoms at…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hilmar Oberst , Shigenori Kasashima , Victor I. Balykin , Fujio Shimizu

We propose methods of optical pumping that are applicable to open, high-angular-momentum transitions in atoms and molecules, for which conventional optical pumping would lead to significant population loss. Instead of applying circularly…

Vibrational resonance amplifies a weak low-frequency signal by use of an additional non-resonant high-frequency modulation. The realization of weak signal enhancement in integrated nonlinear optical nanocavities is of great interest for…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-03 Guilhem Madiot , Sylvain Barbay , Rémy Braive

Quantum entanglement in mechanical systems is not only a key signature of macroscopic quantum effects, but has wide applications in quantum technologies. Here we proposed an effective approach for creating strong steady-state entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Mei Wang , Xin-You Lü , Ying-Dan Wang , J. Q. You , Y. Wu

We propose a scheme for enhancing bipartite quantum entanglement in a double-cavity molecular optomechanical (McOM) system incorporating an intracavity optical parametric amplifier (OPA). Utilizing a set of linearized quantum Langevin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 E Kongkui Berinyuy , C. Tchodimou , P. Djorwe , A. -H. Abdel-Aty , K. S. Nisar , S. G. Nana Engo

In the field of fundamental plasma waves, direct observation of electron-acoustic wave (EAW) propagation in laboratory plasmas remains a challenging problem, mainly because of heavy damping. In the MaPLE device, the wave is observed and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Satyajit Chowdhury , Subir Biswas , Nikhil Chakrabarti , Rabindranath Pal

We propose a new acceleration mechanism for charged particles by using cylindrical or spherical non-linear acoustic waves propagating in ion-electron plasma. The acoustic wave, which is described by the cylindrical or spherical Kortweg-de…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 Hideki Ishihara , Ken Matsuno , Masaaki Takahashi , Syuto Teramae

We utilize the generation of large atomic coherence to enhance the resonant nonlinear magneto-optic effect by several orders of magnitude, thereby eliminating power broadening and improving the fundamental signal-to-noise ratio. A…

The propagation of compressional MHD waves is studied for an externally driven system. It is assumed that the combined action of the external sources and sinks of the entropy results in the harmonic oscillation of the entropy (and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 B. M. Shergelashvili , C. Maes , S. Poedts , T. V. Zaqarashvili

We theoretically analyze superradiant emission of light from an ultracold gas of bosonic atoms confined in a bad cavity. A metastable dipolar transition of the atoms couples to the cavity field and is incoherently pumped, the mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Simon B. Jäger , John Cooper , Murray J. Holland , Giovanna Morigi

Integrating nanoscale electromechanical transducers and nanophotonic devices potentially can enable new acousto-optic devices to reach unprecedented high frequencies and modulation efficiency. Here, we demonstrate acousto-optic modulation…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-09 Semere A. Tadesse , Huan Li , Qiyu Liu , Mo Li

In this paper, ultra-broad band optical signal amplification are analyzed and demonstrated by utilizing supercontinuum generation propagating over the photonic crystal fiber. The coupled nonlinear Schroodinger equation containing parametric…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-02 Yikuan Li , Chun Jiang

The conventional explanation of plasmon-enhanced Raman scattering attributes the enhancement to the antenna effect focusing the electromagnetic field into sub-wavelength volumes. Here we introduce a new model that additionally accounts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Philippe Roelli , Christophe Galland , Nicolas Piro , Tobias J. Kippenberg

We study experimentally parametric amplification in the continuous regime using a transverse-degenerate type-II Optical Parametric Oscillator operated below threshold. We demonstrate that this device is able to amplify either in the phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Gigan , L. Lopez , V. Delaubert , N. Treps , C. Fabre , A. Maitre

Experimental and numerical investigation of single-beam and pump-probe interaction with a resonantly absorbing dense extended medium under strong and weak field-matter coupling is presented. Significant probe beam amplification and conical…