615 research outputs found
Complete photonic bandgaps in supercell photonic crystals
We develop a class of supercell photonic crystals supporting complete
photonic bandgaps based on breaking spatial symmetries of the underlying
primitive photonic crystal. One member of this class based on a two-dimensional
honeycomb structure supports a complete bandgap for an index-contrast ratio as
low as , making this the first such 2D photonic crystal
to support a complete bandgap in lossless materials at visible frequencies. The
complete bandgaps found in such supercell photonic crystals do not necessarily
monotonically increase as the index-contrast in the system is increased,
disproving a long-held conjecture of complete bandgaps in photonic crystals.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Ab-initio theory of quantum fluctuations and relaxation oscillations in multimode lasers
We present an \emph{ab-initio} semi-analytical solution for the noise
spectrum of complex-cavity micro-structured lasers, including central
Lorentzian peaks at the multimode lasing frequencies and additional sidepeaks
due to relaxation-oscillation (RO) dynamics. In~Ref.~1, we computed the
central-peak linewidths by solving generalized laser rate equations, which we
derived from the Maxwell--Bloch equations by invoking the
fluctuation--dissipation theorem to relate the noise correlations to the
steady-state lasing properties; Here, we generalize this approach and obtain
the entire laser spectrum, focusing on the RO sidepeaks. Our formulation treats
inhomogeneity, cavity openness, nonlinearity, and multimode effects accurately.
We find a number of new effects, including new multimode RO sidepeaks and three
generalized factors. Last, we apply our formulas to compute the noise
spectrum of single- and multimode photonic-crystal lasers.Comment: 27 pages, 3 figure
Effects of non-Hermitian perturbations on Weyl Hamiltonians with arbitrary topological charges
We provide a systematic study of non-Hermitian topologically charged systems.
Starting from a Hermitian Hamiltonian supporting Weyl points with arbitrary
topological charge, adding a non-Hermitian perturbation transforms the Weyl
points to one-dimensional exceptional contours. We analytical prove that the
topological charge is preserved on the exceptional contours. In contrast to
Hermitian systems, the addition of gain and loss allows for a new class of
topological phase transition: when two oppositely charged exceptional contours
touch, the topological charge can dissipate without opening a gap. These
effects can be demonstrated in realistic photonics and acoustics systems.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
Italian Roots, American Ways: Cultural Issues in Twentieth-Century Italian American Communities
In this essay the cultural issues of Italian American communities in the 20th century USA have been examined on the examples from three novels: Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, The Godfather by Mario Puzo and Household Saints by Francine Prose. The cultural issues elaborated here were dealing with problems of assimilation, acculturation and other social and economic questions. The mentioned issues were studied on Italian – American literary works, but sometimes there were also comparisons to Croatian-American and Lithuanian-American literature, based on the novels Anna Marinkovich by Edward Ifkovic and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. First, the essay offers a definition of an immigrant novel based on the examples from William Boelhower’s The Brave New World of Immigrant Autobiography and The Immigrant Novel as a Genre. Special emphasis was put on the opposition between the Old World and the New World, i.e. the opposition between tradition and modern world. In regards to the Old World, the essay discusses how Italian immigrants made peace with the new and modern, combining the elements of both worlds into a unique Italian American community. Given that the essay deals with the period of the twentieth century, it was important to mention the position of women and their progressive role from the Thirties to the Eighties. The feminine role developed from being solely housewives to becoming confident, independent and working women. Some historic events like world wars have changed the viewpoint and have made women become emancipated by getting jobs and expanding their role from a completely maternal one to a role of woman being capable of not only working but also taking care of the household
Quantitative test of general theories of the intrinsic laser linewidth
We perform a first-principles calculation of the quantum-limited laser
linewidth, testing the predictions of recently developed theories of the laser
linewidth based on fluctuations about the known steady-state laser solutions
against traditional forms of the Schawlow-Townes linewidth. The numerical study
is based on finite-difference time-domain simulations of the semiclassical
Maxwell-Bloch lasing equations, augmented with Langevin force terms, and thus
includes the effects of dispersion, losses due to the open boundary of the
laser cavity, and non-linear coupling between the amplitude and phase
fluctuations ( factor). We find quantitative agreement between the
numerical results and the predictions of the noisy steady-state ab initio laser
theory (N-SALT), both in the variation of the linewidth with output power, as
well as the emergence of side-peaks due to relaxation oscillations.Comment: 24 pages, 10 figure
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