A transient radio source in the direction of the Galactic Center, GCRT J1745-3009, exhibited 5 peculiar consecutive outbursts at 0.33 GHz with a period of 77.13 minutes and a duration of ∼ 10 minutes for each outburst. It has been claimed to be the prototype of a hitherto unknown class of transient radio sources. We interpret it as a transient white dwarf pulsar with a period of 77.13 minutes. ...

Atoms can be trapped and guided with electromagnetic fields, using nanofabricated structures. We describe the fundamental features of an interferometer for guided matter waves, built of two combined Y-shaped beam splitters. We find that such a device is expected to exhibit high contrast fringes even in a multimode regime, analogous to a white light interferometer.

Detecting gases at low concentrations with FT-IR requires long pathlengths to increase absorption. The conventional approach employs a multi-pass White Cell where the light beam is reflected between two mirrors that are angled so that the beam emerges past one of the mirrors after a number of reflections, giving pathlengths up to tens of meters. In cavity-enhanced measurements, a highly collima...

We study theoretically and verify experimentally the detailed dynamics of spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion for a circularly polarized Gaussian beam propagating along the optical axis of a uniaxial crystal. We extend the results to the case of white-light beams when each of the spectral components undergoes its own wavelength-dependent angular momentum conversion process.

We generate double-charge white-light optical vortices by sending a circularly polarized partially incoherent light through an uniaxial crystal. We show that the generated polichromatic vortices are structurally stable, and their correlation properties can be altered by the beam focusing, resulting in changes of the vortex core visibility.

The quantum mechanical model under consideration describes a particle beam under the influence of an oscillator. Bohm's causal interpretation of quantum mechanics is used to calculate trajectories of the particles. Individual quantum events are defined by the intersection of the beam particle trajectories and the particle detector. The time sequence of individual quantum events is interpreted a...

This work presents a novel inverse algorithm to estimate time-varying input forces in nonlinear beam systems. With the system parameters determined, the input forces can be estimated in real-time from dynamic responses, which can be used for structural health monitoring. In the process of input forces estimation, the Runge-Kutta fourth-order algorithm was employed to discretize the state equati...

We present observations of the 2002 September 30 white-light flare, in which the optical continuum emission near the Hα line is enhanced by ∼10%. The continuum emission exhibits a close temporal and spatial coincidence with the hard X-ray (HXR) footpoint observed by RHESSI. We find a systematic motion of the flare footpoint seen in the continuum emission; the motion history follows roughly that...