Beyond the absorption-limited nonlinear phase shift with microring resonators

We show that the nonlinear phase shift produced by a ring resonator constructed from a given nonlinear optical material can be greater than the phase shift produced by a single pass through an infinite length of the same material when linear and nonlinear absorption are taken into consideration. The figure of merit (defined by the phase shift times the throughput) also improves for the ring resonator over that of the native nonlinear absorbing material. We finally show that these benefits of using the ring resonator as a nonlinear phase-shifting element can enhance the switching characteristics of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer.     

Theory of nonlinear dispersive waves and selection of the ground state

A theory of time-dependent nonlinear dispersive equations of the Schr?dinger or Gross-Pitaevskii and Hartree type is developed. The short, intermediate and large time behavior is found, by deriving nonlinear master equations (NLME), governing the evolution of the mode powers, and by a novel multitime scale analysis of these equations. The scattering theory is developed and coherent resonance phenomena and associated lifetimes are derived. Applications include Bose-Einstein condensate large time dynamics and nonlinear optical systems. The theory reveals a nonlinear transition phenomenon, "selection of the ground state," and NLME predicts the decay of excited state, with half its energy transferred to the ground state and half to radiation modes. Our results predict the recent experimental observations of Mandelik et al. in nonlinear optical waveguides.     

A model for the propagation of nonlinear dispersive strain waves in a solid with defect clusters

A model for the propagation of nonlinear dispersive one-dimensional longitudinal strain waves in an isotropic solid with quadratic nonlinearity of elastic continuum is developed with taking into account the interaction with atomic defect clusters. The governing nonlinear dispersive-dissipative equation describing the evolution of longitudinal strain waves is derived. An approximate solution of the model equation was derived which describes asymmetrical distortion of geometry of the solitary strain wave due to the interaction between the strain field and the field of clusters. The contributions of the finiteness of the relaxation times of cluster-induced atomic defects to the linear elastic modulus and the lattice dissipation and dispersion parameters are determined. The amplitudes and width of the nonlinear waves depend on the elastic constants and on the properties of the defect subsystem (atomic defects, clusters) in the medium. The explicit expression is received for the sound velocity dependence upon the fractional cluster volume, which is in good agreement with experiment. The critical value of cluster volume fraction for the influence on the strain wave propagation is determined.     

New equation for the description of inelastic interaction of nonlinear localized waves in dispersive media

A wave equation for the simulation of nonlinear plane solitary perturbations of the free surface of a shallow fluid has been derived. In contrast to the modified Boussinesq equation, the new one correctly describes the interaction of counter-propagating small-amplitude waves. It has been shown analytically that collisions of solitons are inelastic even in the first-order perturbation theory and the nonlinear dynamics of such collisions is qualitatively different from that described by the modified Boussinesq equation.     

Secular-free solution up to third order of a model nonlinear equation for dispersive waves

The perturbation method of Lindstedt is applied to study the non linear effect of a nonlinear equation $$\nabla ^2 {\rm E} - \frac{1}{{c^2 }}\frac{{\partial ^2 {\rm E}}}{{\partial t^2 }} - \frac{{\omega _0^2 }}{{c^2 }}{\rm E} + \frac{{2v}}{{c^2 }}\frac{{\partial {\rm E}}}{{\partial t}} + E^2 \left[ {\frac{{\partial {\rm E}}}{{\partial t}} \times A} \right] = 0,$$ where (A. E)=0 andA,c, ω ₀ andν are constants in space and time. Amplitude dependent frequency shifts and the solution up to third order are derived.     

Selection of spiral waves in excitable media with a phase wave at the wave back

Universal relationships between the medium excitability and the angular velocity and the core radius of rigidly rotating spiral waves in excitable media are derived for situations where the wave front is a trigger wave and the wave back is a phase wave. Two universal limits restricting the region of existence of spiral waves in the parameter space are demonstrated. The predictions of the free-boundary approach are in good quantitative agreement with results from numerical reaction-diffusion simulations performed on the Kessler-Levine model.     

Anomalous wave reflection at the interface of two strongly nonlinear granular media

Granular materials exhibit a strongly nonlinear behavior affecting the propagation of energy and information. Dynamically self-organized strongly nonlinear solitary waves are the main information carriers in granular chains. We report the first experimental observation of the dramatic change of solitary wave reflectivity from the interface of two granular media triggered by a magnetically induced precompression. It may be appropriate to name this phenomenon the "acoustic diode" effect. We explain this effect by the high gradient of particle velocity near the interface.     

Bifurcation and solitary waves of the nonlinear wave equation with quartic polynomial potential

For the nonlinear wave equation with quartic polynomial potential, bifurcation and solitary waves are investigated. Based on the bifurcation and the energy integral of the two-dimensional dynamical system satisfied by the travelling waves, it is very interesting to find different sufficient and necessary conditions in terms of the bifurcation parameter for the existence and coexistence of bright, dark solitary waves and shock waves. The method of direct integration is developed to give all types of solitary wave solutions. Our method is simpler than other newly developed ones. Some results are similar to those obtained recently for the combined KdV－mKdV equation.     

一类广义非线性扰动色散方程孤立波的近似解

采用了一个简单而有效的技巧,研究了一类非线性扰动色散方程.首先引入求解相应典型方程的孤立波解.然后利用同伦映射方法得到了原非线性扰动色散方程奇异孤立波的近似解.     

弱色散非线性波动方程的孤波解和Jacobi椭圆函数解

应用影射法解传输线中弱色散非线性波动方程,得到了孤波解和Jacobi椭圆函数解,并用Matlab绘图加以说明.     

Influence of nonlinear quantum dissipation on the dynamical properties of the f-deformed Jaynes-Cummings model in the dispersive limit

We investigate the effect of a static electric field on photoionization of the He atom in the ground 1S and low-lying 2S and 2P excited states. The field-affected ionization potential and photoionization cross-section are determined from the complex eigenvalues of the time-dependent Schr?dinger equation solved by the complex rotation method in the Floquet ansatz. Accuracy of the method is enhanced by the use of the Hylleraas basis set. For the ground state of helium, we find that the total photoionization cross-section remains constant or decreases as a function of the DC field strength until this field reaches a certain critical value. For the low-lying excited states, effect of the static field is similar to the ordinary DC Stark effect.     

Decay of the local energy of a two-dimensional wave in a nonlinear weakly negative dispersive medium

We show that the local energy of a two-dimensional wave in a nonlinear weakly negative dispersive medium which is described by a modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation decays to zero as time goes to infinity.     

On the study of a nonlinear higher order dispersive wave equation: its mathematical physical structure and anomaly soliton phenomena

This paper introduces a systematic approach to investigate a higher order nonlinear dispersive wave equation for modeling different wave modes. We present both the conventional KdV-type soliton and anomaly type solitons for the equation. We also show the conservation laws and Hamiltonian structures for the equation. Our results suggest that the underlying equation has more interacting soliton phenomena than one would have known for the classical KdV and Boussinesq equation.     

Stochastic density waves of granular flows: strong-intermittent dissipation fields with self-organization

The quantitative (scaling) results of a recent lattice-gas simulation of granular flows [1] are interpreted in terms of Kolmogorov-Obukhov approach revised for strong space-intermittent systems. Renormalised power spectrum with exponent '-4/3' seems to be an universal spectrum of scalar fluctuations convected by stochastic velocity fields in dissipative systems with inverse energy transfer (some other laboratory and geophysic turbulent flows with this power spectrum as well as an analogy between this phenomenon and turbulent percolation on elastic backbone are pointed out).     

New features of a single-mode nonlinear Stark shift in the presence of phase damping

The influence of the nonlinear Stark shift, for the multi-quanta JCM in the presence of phase damping is studied. In particular the temporal evolution of the atomic inversion, the linear entropy and the entropy squeezing are investigated. The linear entropy is used as an indicator of the degree of entanglement between the atom and the field. The results indicate the sensitivity of these aspects to changes either in the decay parameter or the Stark shift parameter.     

Propagation of optical vortex solitons due to the Gouy phase in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media

In this paper,we present a study on the propagation of the symmetrical optical vortices formed by two collinear Laguerre-Gauss solitons in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media.The optical vortices,which move along the beam axis as the light propagates,result in a rotation of the beam’s transverse profile.This physical reason of the rotation is the Gouy phase acquired by the component beams.     

输入面纵向偏移诱导的强非局域非线性光传输特性变化

基于模式分解方法, 分析了输入面纵向偏移诱导的强非局域非线性光传输特性变化的普适性规律. 结果表明光束输入面移动后导致的影响包括: 光斑在每个周期内出现的位置和顺序的变化、 相同形状的光斑在输入面移动前后大小的差异以及波面曲率因子的演化. 这些性质可用一个简单的数学公式进行归纳; 利用这一公式可方便地由输入面移动前的任意光束解得到输入面纵向移动后的光束解. 关键词： 强非局域非线性 光束 输入面