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Nonlinear optical memory effect
Light propagating through random media produces characteristic speckle patterns, directly related to the large multitude of scattering events. These complex dynamics remarkably display robustness to perturbation of the incoming light parameters, maintaining correlation in the scattered wavefront. This behavior is known as the optical memory effect. Here we unveil the properties of the nonlinear optical memory effect, which occurs when an optothermal nonlinearity perturbs the random material. The effect is characterized through a series of pump and probe experiments in silica aerogel, in the visible range. This additional degree of freedom further generalizes the memory effect, opening the road to applications based on the nonlinear response of random media. (C) 2019 Optical Society of Americ
Modulation Instability and Pattern Formation in Spatially Incoherent Light Beams
We present the first experimental observation of modulation instability of
partially spatially incoherent light beams in non-instantaneous nonlinear
media. We show that even in such a nonlinear partially coherent system (of
weakly-correlated particles) patterns can form spontaneously. Incoherent MI
occurs above a specific threshold that depends on the beams' coherence
properties (correlation distance), and leads to a periodic train of
one-dimensional (1D) filaments. At a higher value of nonlinearity, incoherent
MI displays a two-dimensional (2D) instability and leads to self-ordered arrays
of light spots.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Dynamics-Controlled Truncation Scheme for Nonlinear Dynamics in Semiconductor Microcavities
We present a systematic theory of Coulomb-induced correlation effects in the
nonlinear optical processes within the strong-coupling regime. In this paper we
shall set a dynamics controlled truncation scheme \cite{Axt Stahl} microscopic
treatment of nonlinear parametric processes in SMCs including the
electromagnetic field quantization. It represents the starting point for the
microscopic approach to quantum optics experiments in the strong coupling
regime without any assumption on the quantum statistics of electronic
excitations (excitons) involved. We exploit a previous technique, used in the
semiclassical context, which, once applied to four-wave mixing in quantum
wells, allowed to understand a wide range of observed phenomena \cite{Sham
PRL95}. We end up with dynamical equations for exciton and photon operators
which extend the usual semiclassical description of Coulomb interaction
effects, in terms of a mean-field term plus a genuine non-instantaneous
four-particle correlation, to quantum optical effects.Comment: preprint version, no figures an entire section adde
Coulomb-Induced Suppression of Band-Edge Singularities in the Optical Spectra of Realistic Quantum-Wire Structures
The linear and nonlinear optical properties of realistic quantum wires are studied through a theoretical approach based on a set of generalized semiconductor Bloch equations. Our scheme allows a full three-dimensional multisubband description of electron-hole correlation for any confinement profile, thus permitting a direct comparison with experiments for available quantum-wire structures. Our results show that electron-hole Coulomb correlation removes the one-dimensional band-edge singularities from the absorption spectra, whose shape is heavily modified with respect to the ideal free-carrier single-subband case over the whole density range
Hyperpolarizabilities for the one-dimensional infinite single-electron periodic systems: II. Dipole-dipole versus current-current correlations
Based on Takayama-Lin-Liu-Maki model, analytical expressions for the
third-harmonic generation, DC Kerr effect, DC-induced second harmonic optical
Kerr effect, optical Kerr effect or intensity-dependent index of refraction and
DC-electric-field-induced optical rectification are derived under the static
current-current() correlation for one-dimensional infinite chains. The
results of hyperpolarizabilities under correlation are then compared
with those obtained using the dipole-dipole () correlation. The comparison
shows that the conventional correlation, albeit quite successful for
the linear case, is incorrect for studying the nonlinear optical properties of
periodic systems.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Cascaded Entanglement Enhancement
We present a cascaded system consisting of three non-degenerate optical
parametric amplifiers (NOPAs) for the generation and the enhancement of quantum
entanglement of continuous variables. The entanglement of optical fields
produced by the first NOPA is successively enhanced by the second and the third
NOPAs from -5.3 to -8.1 below the quantum noise limit. The dependence
of the enhanced entanglement on the physical parameters of the NOPAs and the
reachable entanglement limitation for a given cascaded NOPA system are
calculated. The calculation results are in good agreement with the experimental
measurements.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Intensity correlations in resonance nonlinear magneto-optical rotation
We have studied the intensity correlations between two orthogonally linearly
polarized components of a laser field propagating through a resonant atomic
medium. These experiments have been performed in a Rubidium atomic vapor. We
observe that the correlations between the orthogonally polarized components of
the laser beam are maximal in the absence of a magnetic field. The magnitude of
the correlations depends on the applied magnetic field, and the magnitude first
decreases and then increases with increasing magnetic field. Minimal
correlations and maximal rotation angles are observed at the same magnetic
fields. The width of the correlation function is directly proportional to the
excited state lifetime and inversely proportional to the Rabi frequency of
laser field. These results can be useful for improving optical magnetometers
and for optical field or atomic spin squeezing.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Squeezing and entanglement of matter-wave gap solitons
We study quantum squeezing and entanglement of gap solitons in a
Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a one-dimensional optical lattice. By
employing a linearized quantum theory we find that quantum noise squeezing of
gap solitons, produced during their evolution, is enhanced compared with the
atomic solitons in a lattice-free case due to intra-soliton structure of
quantum correlations induced by the Bragg scattering in the periodic potential.
We also show that nonlinear interaction of gap solitons in dynamically stable
bound states can produce strong soliton entanglement.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Breaking of the overall permutation symmetry in nonlinear optical susceptibilities of one-dimensional periodic dimerized Huckel model
Based on infinite one-dimensional single-electron periodic models of
trans-polyacetylene, we show analytically that the overall permutation symmetry
of nonlinear optical susceptibilities is, albeit preserved in the molecular
systems with only bound states, no longer generally held for the periodic
systems. The overall permutation symmetry breakdown provides a fairly natural
explanation to the widely observed large deviations of Kleinman symmetry for
periodic systems in off-resonant regions. Physical conditions to experimentally
test the overall permutation symmetry break are discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
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