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Self-Stopping of Light. / Arkhipov, Mikhail; Arkhipov, Rostislav; Babushkin, Ihar; Rosanov, Nikolay.
In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 128, No. 20, 203901, 20.05.2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-Stopping of Light
AU - Arkhipov, Mikhail
AU - Arkhipov, Rostislav
AU - Babushkin, Ihar
AU - Rosanov, Nikolay
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 American Physical Society.
PY - 2022/5/20
Y1 - 2022/5/20
N2 - Here, we show that light can bring itself to a complete standstill (self-stop) via self-interaction mediated by the resonant nonlinearity in a fully homogeneous medium. An intense few-cycle pulse, entering the medium, may reshape to form a strongly coupled light-matter bundle, in which the energy is transferred from light to the medium and back periodically on the single-cycle scale. Such oscillating structure can decelerate, alter its propagation direction, and even completely stop, depending on the state of its internal degrees of freedom. This phenomenon is expected to occur in the few-cycle strong-field regime when the Rabi oscillation frequency becomes comparable with the frequency of the incoming light.
AB - Here, we show that light can bring itself to a complete standstill (self-stop) via self-interaction mediated by the resonant nonlinearity in a fully homogeneous medium. An intense few-cycle pulse, entering the medium, may reshape to form a strongly coupled light-matter bundle, in which the energy is transferred from light to the medium and back periodically on the single-cycle scale. Such oscillating structure can decelerate, alter its propagation direction, and even completely stop, depending on the state of its internal degrees of freedom. This phenomenon is expected to occur in the few-cycle strong-field regime when the Rabi oscillation frequency becomes comparable with the frequency of the incoming light.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.203901
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.203901
M3 - Article
C2 - 35657893
AN - SCOPUS:85131515729
VL - 128
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 20
M1 - 203901
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