Synthesis of polymer encapsulated nano-clay hybrid via miniemulsion

Issued as final reportNational Science Foundation (U.S.

Discrete solitons in coupled active lasing cavities

We examine the existence and stability of discrete spatial solitons in coupled nonlinear lasing cavities (waveguide resonators), addressing the case of active defocusing media, where the gain exceeds damping in the low-amplitude limit. A new family of stable localized structures is found: these are bright and grey cavity solitons representing the connections between homogeneous and inhomogeneous states. Solitons of this type can be controlled by the discrete diffraction and are stable when the bistability of homogenous states is absent.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, accepted to Optics Letters (October 2012

Regularity of density for SDEs driven by degenerate L\'evy noises

By using Bismut's approach about the Malliavin calculus with jumps, we study the regularity of the distributional density for SDEs driven by degenerate additive L\'evy noises. Under full H\"ormander's conditions, we prove the existence of distributional density and the weak continuity in the first variable of the distributional density. Under the uniform first order Lie's bracket condition, we also prove the smoothness of the density.Comment: 25 page