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PubMed2005

Adiabatic mode multiplexer for evanescent-coupling-insensitive optical switching.

A novel adiabatic mode multiplexer enables a 2 x 2 optical switch whose operation does not depend on accumulated phase due to evanescent coupling between waveguides. The adiabatic mode multiplexer has a negligible insertion loss over C+L bands and modal cross talk better than -40 dB for any polarization state. Mode multiplexing is achieved by adiabatic transition from the fundamental mode of the single-mode waveguide to the higher mode of the multimode waveguide. Experimental measurement results for a device realized in silica-on-silicon technology are presented. By directly measuring the nonadiabatic transition probability, we show that the adiabatic mode multiplexer operates in the Landau-Zener regime.

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PubMed2000

Trapping of an electron due to molecular vibrations

Here we first show that the nuclear motion of H-2 generates a continuum of autoionization resonance states. The interference between them increases the lifetime of the trapped electron in the e(-)/H(2) scattering experiments and leads to asymmetric oscillations in the phase of the excitation probability amplitude. This collective coherent interference resonance phenomenon is very different from any known mechanism in quantum mechanics which reveals the fingerprints of overlapping resonances in scattering cross section and results from the non-Hermitian properties of the H-2 Hamiltonian.

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