Availability of short, femtosecond laser pulses has recently made feasible the probing of phases in an atomic or molecular wave-packet (superposition of energy eigenstates). With short duration excitations the initial form of the wave-packet is an essentially real " doorway state " , and this develops phases for each of its component amplitudes as it evolves. It is suggested that these phases a...

This article introduces the abstract notion of finite wave packet groups over finite fields as the finite group of dilations, translations, and modulations. Then it presents a unified theoretical linear algebra approach to the theory of wave packet transforms (WPT) over finite fields. It is shown that each vector defined over a finite field can be represented as a finite coherent sum of wave pa...

We propose solitons in a photonic topological insulator: self-localized wave packets forming topological edge states residing in the bulk of a nonlinear photonic topological insulator. These self-forming entities exhibit, despite being in the bulk, the property of unidirectional transport, similar to the transport their linear counterparts display on the edge of a topological insulator. In the ...

A short microwave pulse is used to ionize a lithium Rydberg wave packet launched from the core at a well-defined phase of the field. We observe a strong dependence on the relative phase between the motion of the wave packet and the oscillations of the field. This phase dependent ionization is also studied as a function of the relative frequency. Our experimental observations are in good qualita...

Photonic packet switches offer high speed, data rate and format transparency, and flexihility required by future computer com­ munications and cell-based telecommunications networks. In this paper, we review experimental progress in state-of-the-art pho­ tonic packet switches with an emphasis on all-optical guided-wave systems. The term all-optical implies that the data portion of a packet rema...