TY - JOUR
T1 - Ponderomotive forces on waves in modulated media
AU - Dodin, I. Y.
AU - Fisch, N. J.
PY - 2014/5/21
Y1 - 2014/5/21
N2 - Nonlinear interactions of waves via instantaneous cross-phase modulation can be cast in the same way as ponderomotive wave-particle interactions in high-frequency fields. The ponderomotive effect arises when rays of a probe wave scatter off perturbations of the underlying medium produced by a second, modulation wave, much like charged particles scatter off an oscillating electromagnetic field. Parallels with the point-particle dynamics, which itself is subsumed under this theory, lead to new methods of wave manipulation, including asymmetric barriers for light.
AB - Nonlinear interactions of waves via instantaneous cross-phase modulation can be cast in the same way as ponderomotive wave-particle interactions in high-frequency fields. The ponderomotive effect arises when rays of a probe wave scatter off perturbations of the underlying medium produced by a second, modulation wave, much like charged particles scatter off an oscillating electromagnetic field. Parallels with the point-particle dynamics, which itself is subsumed under this theory, lead to new methods of wave manipulation, including asymmetric barriers for light.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.205002
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.205002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901470244
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 112
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 20
M1 - 205002
ER -