The helium-like argon spectrum is measured for the plasma in the Large Helical Device (LHD). The electron temperature Te derived from the intensity ratio of the resonance line (1s2 S0 – 1s2p P1) to a dielectronic satellite line (1s22p P1/2 – 1s2p2 D3/2) is consistent with the central Te measured with the Thomson scattering method when the electron density ne has a peaked profile. The ion temper...

We present studies of strong coupling in single-photon photoassociation of cesium dimers using an optical dipole trap. A thermodynamic model of the trap depletion dynamics is employed to extract absolute rate coefficents. From the dependence of the rate coefficient on the photoassociation laser intensity, we observe saturation of the photoassociation scattering probability at the unitarity limi...

Null-broadening, introduced in plane wave beamforming, is extended to an ocean waveguide in the context of matched field processing. The method is based on the minimum variance processor with white noise constraint and the distribution of fictitious sources using the theory of waveguide invariants. The proposed method is demonstrated in simulation as well as with data collected during the SWell...

Self Phase Modulation (SPM) and Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) in silicon waveguides have been observed and will be discussed theoretically using a modified Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation. The high optical peak powers needed for the experiments were obtained by coupling sub-picosecond (200fs) transform limited pulses with a spectral width of 12nm into a single mode silicon waveguide. Spectra...

Ultra-high luminance lamps emitting white light with a well-scattered blue spectrum from InGaN/GaN laser diodes and a phosphor-converted yellow spectrum show speckle contrast values as low as LED. Spectral behavior of the laser diodes is analyzed to find the reason why such low values are obtained. As a result, the PWM-driven, multilongitudinal mode with dynamically broadened line-width is foun...

We study several effects that influence the strength of the proton cyclotron and atomic features in the thermal spectra of magnetic neutron stars. Magnetic field variations over the neutron star surface leads to broadening of features. Vacuum polarization can strongly suppress spectral lines when B >∼ 10 G. The surface spectrum is unaffected by vacuum polarization when B <∼ 7× 10 G; thus the pr...

In this short review the results of detailed studies for dilepton production from p + A and A + A reactions at SIS energies are presented. The calculations are based on a semi-classical BUU transport model that includes the off-shell propagation of vector mesons and evaluates the width of the vector mesons dynamically. Different scenarios of in-medium modifications of vector mesons, such as col...

Anisotropic line-shape broadening (peak width which is not a smooth function of d-spacing) is frequently observed in powder diffraction patterns, and can be a source of considerable dif®culty for whole-pattern ®tting or Rietveld analysis. A model of the multi-dimensional distribution of lattice metrics within a powder sample is developed, leading naturally to a few parameters which can be varie...

We have studied the quasi-two-dimensional exciton in ZnSe/ZnxMg12xSySe12y ~x50.85, y50.21! single quantum wells ~SQWs! by photoluminescence and photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy. Self-consistent calculations of the peak energies for a series of SQWs give the conduction band discontinuity DEc50.40DEg and the binding energy of the n51 heavy-hole exciton Eb~hh1!522.1 meV for an 8 nm well w...

The properties of zero-phonon lines (ZPLs) for individual dibenzo-anthanthrene (DBATT) molecules in solid Xe have been studied. Systematic differences in the widths of ZPLs for molecules occupying different matrix sites were observed. For the majority of samples a monotonic increase of the average linewidth with temperature was found and satisfactorily described within a model, which combined (...