Vol 39, No 3 (2018)

We estimate the quantum state of two qubits and a two-mode field obeying the Gaussian distribution and give the two Gaussian modes and the density matrix in explicit forms. We study the dynamic properties of the Mandel parameter as a quantifier of the statistical properties for the radiation field during the process of its time evolution. We investigate the nonlocal correlation between the two atoms as well as their entanglement with the field distribution. In addition, we obtain the Fisher information based on the estimation of the atomic state and compare it with the Mandel parameter. Finally, we explore the link between the statistical quantities of the field for different parameters of the two Gaussian modes.

We investigate the damped interaction between two Λ-type three-level atoms and a quantized single-mode cavity field, for which the Hamiltonian of the field is rewritten in Caldirola–Kanai form. We obtain the wave functions for the case where the two atoms are initially prepared in arbitrary pure states and the field is initially prepared in the coherent state. We investigate numerically the influence of the damping parameter on the temporal behavior of the Mandel Q-parameter, linear entropy, and normal squeezing. We find the damping parameter and initial atomic states to play central roles in the nonclassical features and the degree of entanglement.

Without using the approximation of slowly varying envelopes, we investigate spectral transformations of vector few-cycle and quasi-monochromatic solitons under propagation in the birefringent medium of asymmetric molecules possessing permanent dipole moments. We show that when an ordinary pulse enters the medium, the self-modulation effect arises. As a result, the spectrum of the ordinary component undergoes significant changes from the violet shift and the generation of odd harmonics with close frequency satellites to the supercontinuum including zero frequency. The spectrum of the extra-ordinary few-cycle pulse also has the properties of a supercontinuum. When a quasi-monochromatic ordinary pulse enters the medium in the spectrum of an extra-ordinary component, the effect of optical rectification with simultaneous generation of the second harmonics is clearly manifested.

We design an asymmetric nanostructure in the longitudinal direction at the visible–NIR range, which enables high enhancement factor and has the properties of Fano resonance induced by a visible–NIR laser. By simulating and analyzing the resonance frequency spectra of various nanorods, nanodipoles, and combined nanoantennas, we optimize the resonant spectra and enhanced factor of such nanoantennas. It has broad-band resonant spectra with a FWHM from 800 to 1,100 nm and possesses two resonant peaks at 870 and 1,000 nm, with an enhancement factor of 24. The current density distribution in such nanoantennas with different phases is also simulated in order to investigate its resonant mode. This theoretical study paves the way towards nanoscale lightwave control and spectral splitting. The designed nanodevices provide great potential for applications in ultrasensitive color sorters and biosensors induced by visible–NIR lasers.

Based on the measurements of spectra and polarization of low-temperature (5K) microphotoluminescence excited by stabilized continuous-wave laser pumping, we find a new type of isolated emitters formed due to the dislocations in crystalline CdZnTe. For an emitter of this type, zero-phonon luminescence is located 30–50 meV above the usual dislocation luminescence and is subjected to giant fluctuations of spectral position (~10 meV) and intensity. A noticeable degree of linear polarization in the plane containing <110> directions indicates the strongly anisotropic nature of the corresponding electronic states and confirms their connection with dislocations.

We observe stimulated low-frequency Raman scattering (SLFRS) caused by laser pulse interaction with acoustic vibrations of nanoparticles in water suspensions of LaF₃ nanoparticles. We show that frequency shifts of the scattering correspond to the eigenfrequencies of nanoparticles vibrations. LaF₃ nanoparticles were synthesized in the presence of glycine by a double jet precipitation technique at various initial concentrations of reagents. We investigate the morphologies and particle sizes as well as size distributions of the particles prepared using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamical light scattering (DLS). In view of the absorption spectroscopy, we show that the reaction system components and products have no absorption in the visible region, including λ = 694.3 nm. From the luminescence spectroscopy, we find also that they do not emit at λ = 694.3 nm excitation.