• Self-focusing dynamics of ultraintense accelerating Airy waveforms in water

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:00:00
    Author(s): Craig Ament, Miroslav Kolesik, Jerome V. Moloney, and Pavel PolynkinWe report experiments and numerical simulations on the self-focusing and filamentation of ultraintense femtosecond Airy waveforms in water. The accelerating property of Airy waveforms results in the generation of distinct features in the angularly resolved spectra of forward-propagating supercontinu...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043842] Published Wed Oct 31, 2012

  • Quantum simulation of Cooper pairing with photons

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:00:00
    Author(s): Ming-Xia Huo, Changsuk Noh, B. M. Rodríguez-Lara, and Dimitris G. AngelakisWe propose a scheme to observe the crossover from weakly to strongly bound pairs with stationary polaritons. We first show how stationary light-matter excitations (polaritons) can realize an optically tunable two-component Bose-Hubbard model with repulsive intraspecies interactions and attractive in...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043840] Published Wed Oct 31, 2012

  • Rugate filters

    Updated: 2012-10-30 23:00:00
    Encyclopedia article on "rugate filters"

  • Job Search Employment Optics and Photonics Career Center SPIE SPIE Career Center Astronomy jobs Palm

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  • Job Search Employment Optics and Photonics Career Center SPIE SPIE Career Center Electronic Imaging

    Updated: 2012-10-26 19:48:33
    , : , , , , , Create an account Sign in about SPIE contact us help shopping cart SEARCH Home Conferences Exhibitions Publications Education Membership Industry Resources Career Center News Videos Your session has expired Your session will expire in seconds Job Seekers Employers Pricing Job Fairs Salary Survey Advice Tools Receive job listings in your RSS reader Career Center For Job Seekers For Employers Home My Account Jobs Saved Jobs Help Job Detail Find other jobs Job Summary Optical Engineer DUV Expert Job Code : 106623 POSTED : Oct 25 : Salary Open : Location Milpitas , California : Employer KLA-Tencor : Type Full Time Experienced : Categories Electronic Imaging Signal Processing , Light Sources Illumination , Optics Preferred : Education 4 Year Degree Employer Information About

  • Effect of a magnetic field on a two-dimensional metallic photonic crystal

    Updated: 2012-10-26 14:00:00
    Author(s): Ali Hatef and Mahi R. SinghWe study the effect of a static magnetic field on the band structure of a two-dimensional metallic photonic crystal (MPC). The band structure of the MPC has been calculated using the transfer matrix method. It is found that the position of the photonic band gap and the band edges of the MPC depends ...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043839] Published Fri Oct 26, 2012

  • Measuring dispersion of biphotons

    Updated: 2012-10-26 14:00:00
    Author(s): Assaf Barak and Mordechai SegevWe study the interference pattern of biphotons passing through a dispersive medium, and devise a method for measuring dispersion in coincidence counting of entangled photons. By measuring the Gouy phase shift accompanying dispersion, we show that it fundamentally differs from the Gouy phase expected...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043838] Published Fri Oct 26, 2012

  • Wavelength scaling of high-order-harmonic-generation efficiency by few-cycle laser pulses: Influence of carrier-envelope phase

    Updated: 2012-10-26 14:00:00
    Author(s): I. Yavuz, Z. Altun, and T. TopcuWe investigate the wavelength scaling of high-order-harmonic-generation (HHG) efficiency by few-cycle laser pulses where the influence of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) becomes prominent. Based on the numerical solution of time-dependent Schrödinger equation, in the infrared region of λ (0.8–1.8 μ...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043836] Published Fri Oct 26, 2012

  • A Pep Talk for Low Magnification Bins

    Updated: 2012-10-25 23:04:32
    An ingenious and fairly simple instrument, a binocular does so much to enhance our enjoyment of the outdoors. But, one binocular can’t be expected to fulfill every need of every user. Can it? I mean, we want our bin to give us the same performance quality when viewing feeders out our back [...]

  • Job Search Employment Optics and Photonics Career Center SPIE SPIE Career Center Optics jobs Sterlin

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  • Probing the dynamical behavior of surface dipoles through energy-absorption interferometry

    Updated: 2012-10-25 14:00:00
    Author(s): S. Withington and C. N. ThomasSpatial interferometry, based on the measurement of total absorbed power, can be used to determine the state of coherence of the electromagnetic field to which any energy-absorbing structure is sensitive. The measured coherence tensor can be diagonalized to give the amplitude, phase, polarization pa...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043835] Published Thu Oct 25, 2012

  • Optimizing the catching of atoms or molecules in two-dimensional traps

    Updated: 2012-10-24 14:00:00
    Author(s): V. P. Singh and A. RuschhauptSingle-photon cooling is a recently introduced method to cool atoms and molecules for which standard methods might not be applicable. We numerically examine this method in a two-dimensional wedge trap as well as in a two-dimensional harmonic trap. An element of the method is a small optical box with...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043834] Published Wed Oct 24, 2012

  • Synchronization of limit-cycle oscillations in anomalously dispersive nonlinear fiber ring resonators

    Updated: 2012-10-22 14:00:00
    Author(s): Michael Kues and Carsten FallnichThe synchronization of limit-cycle oscillations in anomalously dispersive nonlinear fiber ring resonators via unidirectional and mutual coupling is shown numerically. The limit-cycle oscillations can be synchronized in their phase as well as in their frequency within a respective synchronization int...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043830] Published Mon Oct 22, 2012

  • (3+1)-dimensional superluminal spatiotemporal optical solitons and vortices at weak light level

    Updated: 2012-10-22 14:00:00
    Author(s): Hui-jun Li, Yuan-po Wu, Chao Hang, and Guoxiang HuangA scheme is proposed to produce (3+1)-dimensional superluminal spatiotemporal optical solitons and vortices in a coherent atomic system working in an active Raman gain regime. It is shown that the evolution of the envelope of a signal field obeys a modified (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger eq...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043829] Published Mon Oct 22, 2012

  • Staying dry to stay alive: the ant raft and other water-repellent systems

    Updated: 2012-10-19 08:57:42
    Register now: Thursday 8 November An online lecture presented by David Hu

  • Quantum metrology for nonlinear phase shifts with entangled coherent states

    Updated: 2012-10-18 14:00:00
    Author(s): Jaewoo Joo, Kimin Park, Hyunseok Jeong, William J. Munro, Kae Nemoto, and Timothy P. SpillerWe investigate the phase enhancement of quantum states subject to nonlinear phase shifts. The optimal phase estimation of even entangled coherent states (ECSs) is shown to be better than that of NOON states with the same average particle number 〈n〉 and nonlinearity exponent k. We investigate the cre...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043828] Published Thu Oct 18, 2012

  • Simulation of superconducting devices

    Updated: 2012-10-18 01:00:00
    View on demand: a webinar sponsored by Cobham

  • Perfect invisibility cloaking by isotropic media

    Updated: 2012-10-17 14:00:00
    Author(s): T. Xu, Y. C. Liu, Y. Zhang, C. K. Ong, and Y. G. MaIn this paper the authors report that perfect invisibility cloaking could be achieved in a medium designed by a non-Euclidean conformal transformation. Wave behaviors could be controlled as well as the cloaking device configured by the general Euclidean approach dealing with the full Maxwell's equat...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043827] Published Wed Oct 17, 2012

  • Intensity-dependent frequency shift in surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

    Updated: 2012-10-16 14:00:00
    Author(s): V. M. Parfenyev and S. S. VergelesThe operation of a surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation- (spaser)-based nanolaser is theoretically investigated. We find that the lasing frequency undergoes a shift as the lasing intensity increases, a result that agrees with recent experiments. We show that the mechanis...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043824] Published Tue Oct 16, 2012

  • SPIE Europe Advancing optics and photonics

    Updated: 2012-10-15 14:20:04
    : Create an account Sign in about SPIE contact us help shopping cart SEARCH Home Conferences Exhibitions Publications Education Membership Industry Resources Career Center News Videos Your session has expired Your session will expire in seconds About the Society SPIE Europe Leadership and Governance Bylaws Committees History Officers Directors SPIE Altruism Fellows and Senior Members Awards Programs Press Room Public Policy Related Organizations Jobs at SPIE SPIE Europe : optics and photonics news , public policy advocacy , conferences , career information SPIE Europe serves SPIE constituents as an advocate and liaison to political and industry associations within the European optics and photonics community . SPIE Europe also sponsors and organises world-class technical events throughout .

  • Analysis of the time-energy entanglement of down-converted photon pairs by correlated single-photon interference

    Updated: 2012-10-15 14:00:00
    Author(s): Changliang Ren and Holger F. HofmannThe time-energy entanglement of down-converted photon pairs is particularly difficult to characterize because direct measurements of photon arrival times are limited by the temporal resolution of photon detection. Here, we explore an alternative possibility of characterizing the temporal coherence o...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043823] Published Mon Oct 15, 2012

  • Disorder effects in tunable waveguide arrays with parity-symmetric tunneling

    Updated: 2012-10-15 14:00:00
    Author(s): Clinton Thompson, Yogesh N. Joglekar, and Gautam VemuriWe investigate the effects of disorder on single-particle time evolution and two-particle correlations in an array of evanescently coupled waveguides with position-dependent tunneling rates. In the clean limit, the energy spectrum of such an array is widely tunable. In the presence of a Hermitian on...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043822] Published Mon Oct 15, 2012

  • Discretely observable continuous-time quantum walks on Möbius strips and other exotic structures in three-dimensional integrated photonics

    Updated: 2012-10-15 14:00:00
    Author(s): M. Delanty and M. J. SteelWe theoretically analyze the dynamical evolution of photonic quantum walks on Möbius strips and other exotic structures in three-dimensional integrated photonics. Our flexible design allows discrete observations of continuous-time quantum walks of photons in a variety of waveguide arrays. Furthermor...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043821] Published Mon Oct 15, 2012

  • Multiphoton state engineering by heralded interference between single photons and coherent states

    Updated: 2012-10-15 14:00:00
    Author(s): Tim J. Bartley, Gaia Donati, Justin B. Spring, Xian-Min Jin, Marco Barbieri, Animesh Datta, Brian J. Smith, and Ian A. WalmsleyWe develop a technique for generating multiphoton nonclassical states via interference between coherent and Fock states using quantum catalysis. By modulating the coherent field strength, the number of catalyst photons, and the ratio of the beam splitter upon which they interfere, a wide range of no...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043820] Published Mon Oct 15, 2012

  • Quantum filtering for systems driven by fields in single-photon states or superposition of coherent states

    Updated: 2012-10-15 14:00:00
    Author(s): John E. Gough, Matthew R. James, Hendra I. Nurdin, and Joshua CombesWe derive the stochastic master equations, that is to say, quantum filters, and master equations for an arbitrary quantum system probed by a continuous-mode bosonic input field in two types of nonclassical states. Specifically, we consider the cases where the state of the input field is a superposit...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043819] Published Mon Oct 15, 2012

  • Polarization properties of solid-state organic lasers

    Updated: 2012-10-12 14:00:00
    Author(s): I. Gozhyk, G. Clavier, R. Méallet-Renault, M. Dvorko, R. Pansu, J.-F. Audibert, A. Brosseau, C. Lafargue, V. Tsvirkun, S. Lozenko, S. Forget, S. Chénais, C. Ulysse, J. Zyss, and M. LebentalThe polarization states of lasers are crucial issues both for practical applications and fundamental research. In general, they depend in a combined manner on the properties of the gain material and on the structure of the electromagnetic modes. In this paper, we address this issue in the case of so...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043817] Published Fri Oct 12, 2012

  • Keeping ahead: a look at physics in Japan

    Updated: 2012-10-10 14:33:26
    View on demand: an online lecture presented by Adarsh Sandhu

  • Theory of refraction and reflection with partially coherent electromagnetic beams

    Updated: 2012-10-10 14:00:00
    Author(s): Mayukh Lahiri and Emil WolfLaws of refraction and reflection of light are governed by the classic Fresnel formulas. These formulas are not applicable to partially coherent light. We develop a general theory of refraction and reflection of electromagnetic beams of any state of coherence. We find that coherence properties of su...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 043815] Published Wed Oct 10, 2012

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