The Effect of Orbital Angular Momentum on Nondiffracting Ultrashort Optical Pulses

We introduce a new class of nondiffracting optical pulses possessing orbital angular momentum. By generalizing the X-waves solution of the Maxwell equation, we discover the coupling between angular momentum and the temporal degrees of freedom of ultra-short pulses. The spatial twist of propagation invariant light pulse turns out to be directly related to the number of optical cycles. Our results may trigger the development on novel multi-level classical and quantum transmission channels free of dispersion and diffraction, may also find application in the manipulation of nano-structured objects by ultra-short pulses, and for novel approaches to the spatio-temporal measurements in ultrafast photonics

The Drinfel'd Double versus the Heisenberg Double for Hom-Hopf Algebras

Let $(A,\alpha)$ be a finite-dimensional Hom-Hopf algebra. In this paper we mainly construct the Drinfel'd double $D(A)=(A^{op}\bowtie A^{\ast},\alpha\otimes(\alpha^{-1})^{\ast})$ in the setting of Hom-Hopf algebras by two ways, one of which generalizes Majid's bicrossproduct for Hopf algebras (see \cite{M2}) and another one is to introduce the notion of dual pairs of of Hom-Hopf algebras. Then we study the relation between the Drinfel'd double $D(A)$ and Heisenberg double $H(A)=A\# A^{*}$, generalizing the main result in \cite{Lu}. Especially, the examples given in the paper are not obtained from the usual Hopf algebras