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We propose to use cavity optomechanical systems in the regime of optical bistability for the detection of weak harmonic forces. Due to the optomechanical coupling an external force on the mechanical oscillator modulates the resonance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 Samuel Aldana , Christoph Bruder , Andreas Nunnenkamp

We report on the formation of dark discrete solitons in a nonlinear periodic system consisting of evanescently-coupled channel waveguides that are fabricated in defocusing lithium niobate. Localized nonlinear dark modes displaying a phase…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Eugene Smirnov , Christian E. Rueter , Milutin Stepic , Vladimir Shandarov , Detlef Kip

We demonstrate how noise can be turned into an advantage for optical sensing using a nonlinear cavity. The cavity is driven by a continuous wave laser into the regime of optical bistability. Due to the influence of fluctuations, the cavity…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 Said R. K. Rodriguez

Optically heterodyned detected terahertz Kerr effect of gases of polar molecules is reported. Strikingly, the birefringence signal from fluoroform is found to have opposite polarity compared to water and acetonitrile. This behavior is a…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-17 Tobias Kampfrath , Martin Wolf , Mohsen Sajadi

The possibility of exciting stationary solitons due to the Brewster effect is investigated. The analysis is performed by computing the transmission coefficient of an electromagnetic monochromatic wave obliquely incident on the optical…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-11 J. Posada-Loaiza , J. D. Mazo-Vásquez , E. Reyes-Gómez

Waveguides on a chip represent a new medium for implementing nonlinear optical transformations of light. Modern $\text{Si}_3\text{N}_4$ chip waveguides are attractive due to their high Kerr nonlinearity, suppressed Brillouin scattering on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 R. Singh , A. E. Teretenkov , A. V. Masalov

A sufficient condition for entanglement in two-mode continuous systems is constructed based on interference visibility and the uncertainty of the total particle number. The observables to be measured (particle numbers and particle number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geza Toth , Christoph Simon , Juan Ignacio Cirac

The aim of this lecture is to consider a concrete problem, namely the identification of situations of invisibility in waveguides, to present techniques and tools that may be useful in various fields of applied mathematics. To be more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Lucas Chesnel

We investigate the class of quadratic detectors (i.e., the statistic is a bilinear function of the data) for the detection of poorly modeled gravitational transients of short duration. We point out that all such detection methods are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Chassande-Mottin

Propagation properties of light in optomechanical waveguides arrays (OMWAs) are studied for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. Due to the strong mechanical Kerr effect, the optical self-focusing and self-defocusing phenomena can…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Xinbiao Xu , Linhao Ren , Lei Shi , Xinliang Zhang

According to a recent experiment, the instantaneous electronic Kerr effect in air exhibits a strong intensity dependence, the nonlinear refractive index switching sign and crossing over from a self-focusing to a de-focusing nonlinearity. A…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Kolesik , E. M. Wright , J. V. Moloney

Many classes of non-parity-time (PT) symmetric waveguides with arbitrary gain and loss distributions still possess all-real linear spectrum or exhibit phase transition. In this article, nonlinear light behaviors in these complex waveguides…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 Sean Nixon , Jianke Yang

We experimentally investigate a method of directly characterizing the photon number distribution of nonclassical light beams that is tolerant to losses and makes use only of standard binary detectors. This is achieved in a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daryl Achilles , Christine Silberhorn , Ian A. Walmsley

We investigate a hybrid electro-optomechanical system that allows us to obtain controllable strong Kerr nonlinearities in the weak-coupling regime. We show that when the controllable electromechanical subsystem is close to its quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Xin-You Lü , Wei-Min Zhang , Sahel Ashhab , Ying Wu , Franco Nori

We show that detector switching profiles consisting of trains of delta couplings are a useful computational tool to efficiently approximate results involving continuous switching functions, both in setups involving a single detector and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 José Polo-Gómez , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

Possible squeezed states generated in a three-waveguide nonlinear coupler operating with second harmonic generation is discussed. This study is carried out using two well-known techniques; the phase space method (based on positive…

We introduce a new type of synthetic saturable absorbers based on quantum inspired photonic arrays whose linear light transport characteristics can be derived via bosonic algebra. We demonstrate that the interplay between optical Kerr…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-18 M. H. Teimourpour , A. Rahman , K. Srinivasan , R. El-Ganainy

We propose to combine multiple laser beams into a single diffraction-limited beam by the beam self-focusing (collapse) in the Kerr medium. The beams with the total power above critical are first combined in the near field and then…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Natalia Vladimirova

A key action for enhancing the sensitivity of gravitational wave (GW) detectors based on laser interferometry is to increase the laser power. However, in such a high-power regime, a nonlinear optomechanical phenomenon called parametric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Margherita Turconi , Thomas Harder , Rémi Soulard , Walid Chaibi

It is well-known that the nonlinear coupling between a mechanical oscillator and a superconducting oscillator or optical cavity can be used to generate a Kerr-nonlinearity for the cavity mode. We show that the strength of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Jie-Qiao Liao , Kurt Jacobs , Franco Nori , Raymond W. Simmonds