We employ a simple two-step growth technique to grow large-area 1550-nm laser structures by direct hetero-epitaxy of III–V compounds on patterned exact-oriented (001) silicon (Si) substrates by metal organic chemical vapor deposition. Densely-packed, highly uniform, flat and millimeter-long indium phosphide (InP) nanowires were grown from Si v-grooves separated by silicon dioxide (SiO2) stripes...

We demonstrate the generation of a nondiffracting double helical beam using axicons and ±1 vortex phase plates in a common-path interferometric system. Using linear diffraction theory, a simple analytical expression describing beam propagation is shown to agree with both experiments and Fresnel-diffraction-based simulations. Experiments are performed using continuous laser light in addition to ...

We discuss electron diffraction from two counterpropagating light waves with two different frequencies. We show that, even though these waves do not form a standing wave, electron diffraction similar to the conventional Kapitza-Dirac effect, i.e., scattering on a standing wave, is still possible. The nonlinear response of the electron to the laser fields creates a stationary diffraction grating...

We have constructed an atom interferometer of the Mach-Zehnder type, operating with a supersonic beam of lithium. Atom diffraction uses Bragg diffraction on laser standing waves. With first order diffraction, our apparatus has given a large signal and a very good fringe contrast (74%), which we believe to be the highest ever observed with thermal atom interferometers. This apparatus will be app...

Transparent, electrically conductive and c-axis oriented ZnO thin films have been grown by the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique on silicon and Coming glass substrates employing either a KrF excimer laser (3. = 248 nm) or a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser (3. = 532 rim). The crystalline structure, surface morphology, optical and electrical properties of the deposited films were found to de...

ment of ultrashort laser systems is creating exciting possibilities for very precise localization of laser energy in time and space. These achievements have triggered novel laser applications based on nonlinear interaction processes. A promising three-dimensional microfabrication method that has recently attracted considerable attention is based on twophoton polymerization with ultrashort laser...

Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFA) can produce electric fields of order 10-100 GV/m suitable for acceleration of electrons to relativistic energies. The wakefields are excited by a relativistically intense laser pulse propagating through a plasma and have a phase velocity determined by the group velocity of the light pulse. Two important effects that can limit the acceleration distance and hen...

In addition to imaging, simultaneous diffraction of x rays within crystals makes possible other applications. One involves the substantial reduction of x-ray absorption along directions that satisfy diffraction conditions with respect to several sets of crystal planes. We have demonstrated such reduction in absorption for various cases of simultaneous diffraction in germanium. Such reduction ca...

We have considered influence of technological errors of formation of the amplitude optical lattices made by method of a laser ablyation of thin films of molybdenum on distribution of diffraction orders in a distant zone of diffraction. For this purpose we have digitized a profile of a site of the created diffraction structure with the subsequent transformation to amplitude or phase functions of...