Terahertz electromagnetic radiation from quantum wells

The observation of terahertz electromagnetic dipole radiation from quantum well structures has finally proven the existence of charge oscillations in semiconductors associated with wave packet dynamics. This article closely examines the physics behind the emission of terahertz electromagnetic radiation from excitonic charge oscillations in such quantum well structures, points out similarities and differences between the various generation schemes, and discusses the various relaxation mechanisms involved. Finally, we show how both amplitude and phase of charge oscillations and the corresponding terahertz emission can be manipulated using phase-locked optical pulses.     

Z箍缩等离子体振荡引起的电磁脉冲辐射

从理论上研究了Z箍缩过程中单模的等离子体振荡引起的电磁脉冲辐射。当模式扰动的相速度大于真空中的光速时,电磁脉冲辐射具有类似于切伦科夫辐射的角分布特征,并且随着相速度的增大这种定向辐射特征越显著;不同波长的电磁辐射也具有不同的角分布特征,短波长的电磁脉冲具有更好的定向性。电磁辐射功率强烈依赖于电子的等离子体振荡频率和等离子体柱的半径。     

The effect of nutation upon nonresonant propagation of electromagnetic wave in the ensemble of quantum dots

A new type of nutation oscillations is described arising only in the phase of a nonresonant electromagnetic wave (in the vicinity of its leading edge) propagating in the ensemble of quantum dots and producing electron transfer between the states of the quantum dots with approximately the same energy. It is shown that the period of the nutation oscillations can be used to determine main parameters of the nonresonant electron transfer between the quantum dots.     

阻尼作用下振子相图的电路模拟

电学量和力学量之间存在一一对应的关系,例如弹簧振子振动和LC电路的微分方程具有相同的形式.我们用电路系统在示波器中直接展现出电磁振荡过程,模拟了黏滞阻尼振动过程的相图.又利用稳压二极管模拟了摩擦阻力作用下弹簧振子振动的相图.将一道力学问题找到对应的电路模拟,在教学过程中具有启发意义.     

Chaos synchronization with signal distortion in a communication channel: Experiment and numerical simulation

The effect of filtering properties of a communication channel on dynamic regulations and synchronization of oscillations in a system of two unidirectionally coupled generators of chaotic signals is studied in natural radiophysics and numerical experiments. The amplitude and phase relations between the signals of the trailing and leading systems are studied for varying transmission band of the filter and the extent of signal attenuation in the communication channel. The results of measurements are confirmed by calculations of the coherence function and variance of the phase difference of oscillations.     

Excitation of parametric oscillations in a triode with a virtual cathode with an external electromagnetic wave

The electromagnetic radiation of an electron flow in a triode with a virtual cathode is studied from the viewpoint of a parametric resonance. It is shown that the phase modulation of the electrons and the radiation saturation take place due to the oscillations of the virtual cathode as a result of large space charge. An expression for the coherent radiation intensity of the electron flow in a resonator is derived. It is shown that the phase modulation depth and the radiation efficiency increase with an external electromagnetic wave. Tomsk Polytechnic University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 76–81, February, 2000.     

Energy levels of oscillations in a nonlinear transmission line filled with saturated ferrite

Stationary solutions in the form of traveling electromagnetic waves in a uniform transmission line filled with saturated ferrite in the absence of damping are studied. Expressions are obtained for the period of nonlinear oscillations as a function of their amplitude. The period of linear oscillations is shown to linearly increase with the current through the line. The group velocity of the stationary wave increases with the oscillation amplitude. A relationship is found between the electromagnetic oscillations and oscillations of the magnetization vector. The oscillations become increasingly anisochronous with increasing the external magnetic field.     

Evolution of an intense elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave in underdense plasmas

An elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave in an underdense plasma acquires a longitudinal component of the electric field which oscillates as even harmonics of the fundamental frequency. The phase shift between transverse field components and the wave amplitudes exhibit nonlinear oscillations.     

Neutrinos in electromagnetic fields and moving media

The history of the development of the theory of neutrino-flavor and neutrino-spin oscillations in electromagnetic fields and in a medium is briefly surveyed. A new Lorentz-invariant approach to describing neutrino oscillations in a medium is formulated in such a way that it makes it possible to consider the motion of a medium at an arbitrary velocity, including relativistic ones. This approach permits studying neutrinospin oscillations under the effect of an arbitrary external electromagnetic field. In particular, it is predicted that, in the field of an electromagnetic wave, new resonances may exist in neutrino oscillations. In the case of spin oscillations in various electromagnetic fields, the concept of a critical magnetic-field-component strength is introduced above which the oscillations become sizable. In considering neutrino oscillations in moving matter, it is shown within the Lorentz-invariant formalism that the relativistic motion of matter significantly affects the character of neutrino oscillations and can radically change the conditions under which the oscillations are resonantly enhanced. Possible new effects in neutrino oscillations are discussed for the case of neutrino propagation in relativistic fluxes of matter.     

Hydrodynamics and heat transfer for large amplitude pulsating laminar flow in channels

The heat transfer at superposition of high-frequency oscillations on a laminar flow of a liquid in flat and rectan-gular channels at a distance from an inlet of a heated site is investigated under boundary conditions on channel walls of the first and second kind. For the flat channel, the obtained analytical expressions for the amplitude and phase profiles of the longitudinal velocity oscillations are used as a function of the dimensionless oscillation frequency in the form of functions of a real variable. It is shown that the mean value taken for the perimeter of the channel and also the period of oscillations, the Nusselt number for large amplitudes of mean velocity oscillations over the cross section can signifi-cantly exceed its stationary value. The limiting value of the ratio of Nusselt numbers for a pulsating and steady flow in the region of high pulsation frequencies is found.     

Manifestation of quantum size effects in optics of ultrathin niobium films

The optical properties of ultrathin (～nm) niobium films enriched with oxygen are studied by the methods of phase spectroscopy of surface electromagnetic waves (in the far-IR spectral region), IR absorption (in the mid-IR spectral region), and ellipsometry (in the visible spectral region). The films were deposited onto crystal calcium fluoride substrates by the method of high-frequency cathode sputtering. The complex permittivity of the films is calculated from the experimental data. The dependences of both the imaginary and real parts of the permittivity on the film thickness exhibit oscillations with a period of 9 Å, the real part sign being changed during oscillations.     

Flow of an electrically conducting bubble liquid in the field of an electromagnetic force

Physical processes accompanying the flow of a conducting bubble liquid in crossed electric and magnetic fields are considered. Based on the general equations of mechanics of multiphase media, we develop a one-dimensional model of the flow of and heat exchange in a compressible bubble liquid when the phases are not in thermal and velocity equilibrium. The model is numerically investigated. It is demonstrated that, when the bubble liquid flows along the electromagnetic force vector, the bubbles lag behind the carrying flow and are compressed and warmed up. This causes oscillations of the bubble volume, as well as oscillations of the parameters of both the disperse and carrying phase. In particular, the compression of the bubbles reduces the volumetric gas content, as well as increases the effective conductivity of the flow and the electromagnetic force in the downstream direction. This sets conditions for crisis of the bubble flow when the electromagnetic force expels the bubbles against the main stream. On the basis of the solutions obtained, the efficiency of a gas compressor is calculated.     

Photon Statistics of Generic Two-Mode Squeezed Coherent Light

for two-mode squeezed coherent states, the photon distribution function is expressed in terms of both four-variable and two-variable Hermite polynomials depending on two squeezing parameters, the relative phase between the two oscillators, their “spatial” orientation, and a four-dimensional shift in phase space of the electromagnetic field oscillator. The oscillations of the photon distribution function are discussed. The Wigner function and Q-function of the generic two-mode squeezed vacuum and squeezed coherent state are calculated explicitly.     

Phase conjugation at the surfaces of optically excited CuI films

The possibility of realizing an optical phase conjugation in an excited semiconductor medium is shown theoretically and experimentally. A phase conjugation is revealed for the photon energy equal to half the energy of the radiative recombination of excitons in CuI films pumped by a nitrogen laser at room temperature. The dependences of the phase-conjugation signal intensity on its spectral composition are investigated. The quadratic interaction of light and exciton electromagnetic oscillations in the semiconductor medium is suggested as an explanation of this effect.     

Collapse and revival of the Doppler-Rabi oscillations of a moving atom in a cavity

Collapse and revival of the Doppler-Rabi oscillations of a two-level atom moving in a cavity electromagnetic field are analyzed. The coupled atom-field dynamics are predicted accurately by numerical calculation and approximately by using the stationary phase approximation combined with the Poisson summation formula. The collapse and revival patterns are shown to be qualitatively different in the cases of moving atom and atom at rest. In particular, quantum revivals of Doppler-Rabi oscillations occur with a period determined by the Doppler shift of the atomic transition frequency. This regime of Doppler-Rabi oscillations requires that the Rabi frequency and the Doppler shift satisfy the condition Ω_R ? Ω_D. Under the inverse relation, the collapse- revival phenomenon generally does not occur. It is shown that even a small amount of atom-cavity detuning eliminates collapse-revival behavior. The analysis is performed for both coherent and thermal cavity fields.     

Interaction of electromagnetic oscillations with charged particle flows in nonuniform plasma-like structures

A hydrodynamic theory is developed of the interaction of electromagnetic oscillations with a monoenergetic charged particle beam propagating through a structure consisting of plasma and dielectric layers bounded by perfectly conducting planes. It is shown that, in such a system, plasma oscillations are excited due to the transformation of space charge oscillations of the particle flow into plasma oscillations at the layer boundaries. The regions of generation and decay of plasma oscillations are determined.     

Phase-charge duality of a josephson junction in a fluctuating electromagnetic environment

We have measured the current-voltage characteristics of a single Josephson junction placed in a high impedance environment. The transfer of Cooper pairs through the junction is governed by overdamped quasicharge dynamics, leading to Coulomb blockade and Bloch oscillations. Exact duality exists to the standard overdamped phase dynamics of a Josephson junction, resulting in a dual shape of the current-voltage characteristic, with current and voltage changing roles. We demonstrate this duality with experiments which allow for a quantitative comparison with a theory that includes the effect of fluctuations due to the finite temperature of the electromagnetic environment.     

光受激发射的稳定性

本文推导出描述三能级Laser工作过程的准经典方程组,并分析了输出振动的稳定性。在阈值以上,当T₁?T₂,q^-1时,只在1/(qT₂)>1时,输出振幅是稳定的(其中T₁,T₂,q^-1分别是分子纵向、横向及谐振腔的弛豫时间)。在稳定区域,趋向平衡的时间与T₁成正比。当分子线宽小于谐振腔宽度时,输出是不稳定的,而在1/(qT₂)减小时,平衡点由稳定变到不稳定时产生一个稳定的极限环,即输出振幅逐渐开始振动。关于稳定性的结论在气体Laser中是可以检验的。本文指出,在红宝石Laser中看到的输出不稳定,可能就是谐振腔的q很大的结果。     

Transformation of acoustic waves in upper atmosphere

The transformation of acoustic waves into electromagnetic oscillations in the plasma of the upper atmosphere is analyzed. It is demonstrated that acoustic oscillations in ionosphere in the presence of the gradients of gas temperature and electron concentration lead to plasma vortices that provide the generation of electromagnetic waves.     

Nonlinear Theory of the Instability of a Modulated Electron Beam of Low Density in a Plasma. I. Conservation Laws of Energy and Momentum for Electromagnetic Waves in a Nonequilibrium Dispersive and Dissipative Medium in the Case of a Slow Change of Amplitude and Phase of the Wave

A formula is given for the energy and momentum conservation laws for a narrow spectrum of electromagnetic waves in an unstable dispersive and dissipative medium by any level of dissipation and on condition that the amplitude and phase change slowly in the time and space period of oscillations. It is shown that the density of energy and momentum of the motion of resonant particles, connected with the propagation of the electromagnetic wave, generally cannot be expressed by the dielectric function of the unstable system. For example it is demonstrated that the well known Landau formula for determining the density of the wave energy in a unstable monoenergetic beam-plasma system in general is not applicable as it is often done in literature.