Spatially modulated morphotropic phase boundaries in a compressively strained multiferroic thin film

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | Summary:The coexisting rhombohedral-like (R’, MA) and tetragonal-like (T’, MC) monoclinic phases in compressively strained bismuth ferrite thin films exhibit exceptional piezoelectric and magnetic properties. While previous studies have largely focused on probing the morphotropic phase boundaries (MPBs) comprising ordered R’/T’ twins, their self-organizing structures remain not fully explored. Here, we […]


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Partial parabolic amplification in rare-earth-doped optical fiber

Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | Summary:Nonlinear amplification is a powerful technique for generating ultrashort laser pulses with high peak power in fiber systems. However, the diversity of nonlinear amplification approaches and their inherent complexities present significant challenges to achieving a unified understanding and further scaling of peak power and pulse energy while preserving ultrashort durations. […]


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Partial parabolic amplification in rare-earth-doped optical fiber

Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | Summary:Nonlinear amplification is a powerful technique for generating ultrashort laser pulses with high peak power in fiber systems. However, the diversity of nonlinear amplification approaches and their inherent complexities present significant challenges to achieving a unified understanding and further scaling of peak power and pulse energy while preserving ultrashort durations. […]


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Raman phonon dynamics and its control for enhanced optical frequency conversion

Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | Summary:Raman phonons arise from the inelastic scattering of light and represent quantized molecular motions that mediate a wide range of spectroscopic and nonlinear optical phenomena. In this work, we clarify the physical role of Raman phonons within a previously-developed time-domain framework based on the Raman-induced index modulation, and show that […]


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Raman phonon dynamics and its control for enhanced optical frequency conversion

Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | Summary:Raman phonons arise from the inelastic scattering of light and represent quantized molecular motions that mediate a wide range of spectroscopic and nonlinear optical phenomena. In this work, we clarify the physical role of Raman phonons within a previously-developed time-domain framework based on the Raman-induced index modulation, and show that […]


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Raman phonon dynamics and its control for enhanced optical frequency conversion

Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | Summary:Raman phonons arise from the inelastic scattering of light and represent quantized molecular motions that mediate a wide range of spectroscopic and nonlinear optical phenomena. In this work, we clarify the physical role of Raman phonons within a previously-developed time-domain framework based on the Raman-induced index modulation, and show that […]


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Analysis and control of Raman phonon dynamics for enhanced optical frequency conversion

Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | Summary:Raman phonons are quantized molecular motions that arise from the inelastic scattering of light and mediate a wide range of spectroscopic and nonlinear optical phenomena. These can play a major role in frequency-conversion processes, but commonly-used theoretical treatments based on the Raman gain spectrum largely neglect the phonons and their […]


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Analysis and control of Raman phonon dynamics for enhanced optical frequency conversion

Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | Summary:Raman phonons are quantized molecular motions that arise from the inelastic scattering of light and mediate a wide range of spectroscopic and nonlinear optical phenomena. These can play a major role in frequency-conversion processes, but commonly-used theoretical treatments based on the Raman gain spectrum largely neglect the phonons and their […]


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Reconciling strange metal transport in CeCoIn$_5$ through the difference of optical and cyclotron effective masses

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | Summary:The strange metal behavior in cuprate superconductors – characterized by linear in temperature resistivity and anomalous Hall transport – stands in stark contrast to the expectation of conventional Fermi liquid (FL) theory. Remarkably, the similar transport behavior has also been observed in the heavy fermion metal CeCoIn$_5$, whose d-wave superconducting […]


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Quantum Saturation of the Electro-Optic Effect

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | Summary:Future quantum computing architectures require electro-optic materials that maintain a strong, stable performance at cryogenic temperatures. In conventional electro-optic materials, large electro-optic coefficients are often confined to narrow temperature windows near structural phase transitions, where small changes in temperature lead to large changes in the electro-optic response. Using thermodynamic analysis, […]


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