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Recent experiments [Guan et al. Science 381, 766 (2023)] have demonstrated that the resolution of superlensing slabs can be significantly enhanced with complex frequency illuminations. In this study, we introduce a novel theoretical…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Philippe Lalanne , Tong Wu

This note analyzed the angle-distribution of the probabilities of two-photon states come out of a single-photon's stimulated emission amplification, show that one can exploit EPR photon pairs combined with stimulated emission to realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Li Yang

Motivated by a proposal from Greenberger [Physica Scripta T76, p.57 (1998) ] for superluminal signaling, and inspired by an experiment from Zou, Wang, and Mandel [Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, p.318 (1991) ] showing interference effects within…

General Physics · Physics 2013-01-22 Demetrios A. Kalamidas

Dispersion and absorption properties of a weak probe field in a three-level V-type atomic system is studied. By application of indirect incoherent pump fields the effect of populating upper levels on optical properties of the atomic medium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-20 Khaled Saaidi , Bahareh Ruzbahani , S. Worya Rabiei , Mohammad Mahmoudi

By solving the self-consistent system of Maxwell and density matrix equations to the first order with respect to nonadiabaticity, we obtain an analytical solution for the probe pulse propagation. The conditions for efficient storage of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Gor Nikoghosyan , Gayane Grigoryan

In their study of superluminal propagation, rotary drag and surface polaritons [Phys. Rev. A 96, 013848 and 049906(E) (2017)], Khan et al. consider a four-level atomic arrangement with transitions in the optical domain. In fact, the values…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-27 Bruno Macke , Bernard Ségard

The coupled system of Boltzman equations for the interacting system of electrons, positrons and photons in high external electric, E, and arbitrary magnetic, H, fields is solved. The consideration is made under the conditions of arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. M. Gassym

Hyperbolic metamaterials were originally introduced to overcome the diffraction limit of optical imaging. Soon thereafter it was realized that hyperbolic metamaterials demonstrate a number of novel phenomena resulting from the broadband…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-27 Igor I. Smolyaninov

The OPERA collaboration has claimed the discovery of supeluminal neutrino propagation. However the superluminal interpretation of the OPERA result was refuted by Cohen and Glashow because it was shown that such superluminal neutrinos would…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-12 Irina Ya. Aref'eva , Igor V. Volovich

This contribution has two main purposes. First, we show using classical optics how to model two coupled quantum harmonic oscillators and two interacting quantized fields. Second, we use quantum mechanical techniques to solve, exactly, the…

Four-dimensional optics leverages the simultaneous control of materials in space and time to manipulate light. A key challenge in experimentally realizing many intriguing phenomena is the need for rapid modulation, which is hindered by the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-26 M. H. Mostafa , M. S. Mirmoosa , E. Galiffi , S. Yin , A. Alù , S. A. Tretyakov

Experimentally fixed sound pulse beyond of light speed in the region of anomalous dispersion [W. M. Robertson, e. a. Appl. Phys. Lett, 90, 014102 (2007)] can be explained, as well as the similar superluminal phenomena, by "the nonlocality…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-07-12 M. E. Perel'man

Slow light is a fascinating physical effect, raising fundamental questions related to our understanding of light-matter interactions as well as offering new possibilities for photonic devices. From the first demonstrations of slow light…

Pulse propagation in nonlinear arrays continues to be of interest because it provides a possible mechanism for energy transfer with little dispersion. Here we show that common measures of pulse dispersion might be misleading; in strongly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexandre Rosas , Katja Lindenberg

A method to generate ultrahigh intense electromagnetic fields is suggested, based on the laser pulse compression, carrier frequency upshift and focusing by a counter-propagating breaking plasma wave, relativistic flying parabolic mirror.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei V. Bulanov , Timur Esirkepov , Toshiki Tajima

We review recent quantitative results on the approximation of mean field diffusion equations by large systems of interacting particles, obtained by optimal coupling methods. These results concern a larger range of models, more precise…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-21 François Bolley

The interaction of intense, ultra-short laser pulses with nanostructures offers promising avenues for spatiotemporal light control. While enhanced optical transmission through subwavelength apertures has been extensively studied in the…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-31 Xiaohui Gao

We improve some upper bounds for minimal dispersion on the cube and torus. /Our new ingredient is an improvement of a probabilistic lemma used to obtain upper bounds for dispersion in several previous works. Our new lemma combines a random…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Andrii Arman , Alexander E. Litvak

Recent manifestations of apparently faster-than-light effects confirmed our predictions that the group velocity in transparent optical media can exceed c. Special relativity is not violated by these phenomena. Moreover, in the electronic…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Raymond Y. Chiao , Jandir M. Hickmann , Daniel Solli

In recent years, control of group velocity of light has attracted enormous interest. One of the main challenges is to realize an absorption-free fast or slow light propagation. Here, we study dispersion and absorption properties of a weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Seyedeh Hamideh Kazemi , Mohammad Ali Maleki , Mohammad Mahmoudi