Optical shock-enhanced self-photon acceleration

Time dependent cosmic–ray shock acceleration with self–consistent injection

One of the key questions to understanding the efficiency of diffusive shock acceleration of the cosmic rays (CRs) is the injection process from thermal particles. A self–consistent injection model based on the interactions of the suprathermal particles with self–generated magneto–hydrodynamic waves has been developed recently by Malkov (1998). By adopting this analytic solution, a numerical tre...

Diffusive Shock Acceleration and Reconnection Acceleration Processes

Shock waves, as shown by simulations and observations, can generate high levels of downstream vortical turbulence, including magnetic islands. We consider a combination of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) and downstream magnetic-island-reconnection-related processes as an energization mechanism for charged particles. Observations of electron and ion distributions downstream of interplanetary ...

Cavity enhanced nonlinear optics for few photon optical bistability.

Weak material nonlinearity at optical frequencies poses a serious hurdle to realizing optical bistability at low optical powers, which is a critical component for digital optical computing. In this paper, we explore the cavity enhancement of the second-order optical nonlinearity in order to determine the feasibility of few photon optical bistability. Starting from a quantum optical formalism of...

Hardware acceleration of photon mapping

Photon Acceleration-Based Radiation Sources

The acceleration and deceleration of photons m a plasma provides the means lbr a series of new radiation sources. Previous work on a DC to AC Radiation Converter (DARC source) has shown variable acceleration of photons having zero frequency (i.e., an electrostatic field) to belx~een 6 and 100 GHz (I-3). These sources all had poor guiding characteristics resulting in poor power coupling froln th...