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Nonlinear interactions between high-Q optical and acoustic modes in dielectric particles
The interaction between acoustic breathing modes and optical Mie resonances in a spherical particle made
of a chalcogenide glass material is investigated by means of rigorous calculations, correct to any order
in the acousto-optic coupling parameter. Our results reveal the occurrence of strong effects beyond the
linear-response approximation, which lead to enhanced modulation of light by acoustic waves through
multiphonon exchange mechanisms when both photons and phonons have a very long lifetime inside the particle
Organic.Edunet Web Portal: User Satisfaction Analysis
The Organic.Edunet Web portal is a multilingual federation of educational repositories, developed in order to enhance the availability and retrieval of quality educational resources about Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology (AE). This paper presents the results of an online survey that took place from March to August 2010 in order to evaluate the user satisfaction from the Organic.Edunet Web portal. A standard methodology was followed in this survey, which was based on the WebQual questionnaire with the required modifications. The collected results were analyzed and statistically processed in order to lead to the corresponding conclusions
Absolute spectral gaps for infrared light and hypersound in three-dimensional metallodielectric phoxonic crystals
By means of full electrodynamic and elastodynamic multiple-scattering calculations we study the
optical and acoustic properties of three-dimensional lattices of metallic nanospheres implanted in a
dielectric host. Our results show that such structures exhibit omnidirectional spectral gaps for both
telecom infrared light and hypersound, with relatively low absorptive losses. This class of dual
phoxonic band-gap materials is an essential step toward the hypersonic modulation of light and
could lead to the development of efficient acousto-optical devices
On maximal surfaces in the space of oriented geodesics of hyperbolic 3-space
We study area-stationary, or maximal, surfaces in the space of oriented geodesics of hyperbolic 3-space, endowed with
the canonical neutral K\"ahler structure. We prove that every holomorphic curve
in is a maximal surface. We then classify
Lagrangian maximal surfaces in and prove
that the family of parallel surfaces in orthogonal to the
geodesics form a family of equidistant tubes around a
geodesic.Comment: 16 pages, AMS-Late
Stampacchia's property, self-duality and orthogonality relations
We show that if the conclusion of the well known Stampacchia Theorem, on
variational inequalities, holds on a Banach space X, then X is isomorphic to a
Hilbert space. Motivated by this we obtain a relevant result concerning
self-dual Banach spaces and investigate some connections between existing
notions of orthogonality and self-duality. Moreover, we revisit the notion of
the cosine of a linear operator and show that it can be used to characterize
Hilbert space structure. Finally, we present some consequences of our results
to quadratic forms and to evolution triples
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