We present a new approach to optical interconnections, based on microelectromechanical system tip/tilt mirror technology and the White cell. This is a free-space approach in which many beams circulate simultaneously in the device, each beam forming a unique spot pattern on the micromirror array. On each bounce, each beam can be switched to any of several White cells, each of which has a differe...

Dispersion relations are derived to determine the growth rate, dominant wavelength, and group velocity of disturbances caused by the beam breakup instability. Considerations include weak and strong focusing, x-y coupling in solenoidal transport, the spacing of accelerator cavities, and periodically pulsed beams. Beam breakup growth is minimum when the cavity spacing equals an integral number of...

A small coupling perturbation in a synchrotron can cause instability of the particle motionslas a beam is being accelerated through a resonance. Such a resonance may occur whenever nlv 1 + n2v2 = n3, where “1, n2 and n3 are integers and vl and v2 are the ratios of the frequencies of horizontal and vertical betatron oscillations to the frequency of revolution. Recently, large growth of beam dime...

Manipulation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) by phase modulation of incident light beams is proposed with analytical and numerical verifications when an optical vortex (OV) beam is employed as an example. Fundamental functionalities of a plasmonic chip such as in-plane focusing, coupling and multiplexing of SPP by sequentially varying the topological charge of OV beam are demonstrated. Comp...

Using the unique detection properties offered by metastable helium atoms we have produced high resolution images of the transverse spatial profiles of an atom laser beam. We observe fringes on the beam, resulting from quantum mechanical interference between atoms that start from rest at different transverse locations within the outcoupling surface and end up at a later time with different veloc...

A method of calculating the coupling impedance and the wake function of resistive beam pipes is given including the short-range behavior of the wake. The pipe is uniform longitudinally but the cross section is arbitrary. The beam is assumed to be ultra-relativistic. A simple computer code is written using the boundary element method. Some results for elliptic, rectangular and hyperbolic pipes a...

An electromagnetically induced absorption grating is formed in a three-level atomic vapor under the condition of electromagnetically induced transparency in which the strong coupling beam is replaced by a standing wave. The transmission and reflection behaviors of the weak probe beam are greatly modified at certain frequencies near the two-photon resonance. An all-optical two-port signal router...

Significant reductions in the noise of the infrared light have been made at Beamline 1.4.3 infrared source at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). The primary source of vibrational noise has been identified as the water system for the storage ring RF system, which is located near the beamline. Modifications to this system have reduced the noise by an order of magnitude. The dominant source of highe...

We have constructed, analytically and numerically, a new class of self-consistent 6-D phase space stationary distributions. Stationary distributions allow us to study the halo development mechanism without being obscured by beam redistribution and its effect on halo formation. The beam is then mismatched longitudinally and/or transversely, and we explore the formation of longitudinal and transv...

By performing two-beam coupling experiments in a liquid crystal light-valve, optical beam amplification is obtained as a strongly resonant process to which a narrow frequency bandwidth is associated. By exploiting this property, we realize an adaptive holographic interferometric system that is able to efficiently sensing displacements as small as fraction of picometers. The adaptive interferome...