Dynamics of quantum waves in the field of a nonstationary well

Valerii S. Butylkin, Yury G. Khronopulo, A. E. Kaplan +1 more

Jan Dereziński, Christian Gérard

Douglas H. Bradshaw, Michael D. Di Rosa

Recent experiments have demonstrated that it is possible to alter the dispersion of a medium without significantly altering its absorption or refractive index and that this may be done while a wave propagates through the medium. This possibility opens up a new set of potential experiments to the field of nonstationary optics. We consider the basic kinetics of waves propagating through a medium whose group and phase velocities are a function of position and time. We compare the dynamics of waves propagating through two homogeneous media, one a nondispersive medium with a time dependent phase velocity, and one a dispersive medium with a time dependent group velocity and show that new dynamic effects accompany new kinetic ones.

N. I. Shamrov

A semiclassical model of nonstationary stimulated Raman scattering with account of forward and backward waves of different frequencies is proposed. Equations for the elements of a collective density matrix and electric-field amplitudes are obtained applying the averaging method. It is shown that forward waves are generated by a united polarization component, whereas each of the backward waves is formed by its own component. The description is based on the approximation of small scattering angles and assumes that the quantities considered do not depend on transverse coordinates. The emission dynamics of forward-backward Stokes pulses is investigated both for the linear case and under the strong depletion of pumping and level populations. The domain of applicability of the model of nonstationary forward stimulated Raman scattering is determined.

M. A. Markov

Liu, FLi, XGLi +1 more

The temporal variation characteristics of nonstationary wave functions The temporal variation characteristics of nonstationary wave functions