Solitary waves have consistently captured the imagination of scientists, ranging from fundamental breakthroughs in spectroscopy and metrology enabled by super continuum light, to gap solitons for dispersionless slow-light, and discrete spatial solitons in lattices, amongst others. Recent progress in strong Field atomic physics include impressive demonstrations of attosecond pulses and high-harmonic generation via photoionization of free-electrons in gases at extreme intensities of *10^^14 W/cm2. *
Soliton dynamics in the multiphoton plasma regime http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.5748.pdf On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:20 AM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:20:35 -0500: > Hi, > [snip] > > If the energy of the light wave where compressed into a soliton of 1 > >nanometer in diameter carrying a power density of 100 > terawatts/cm2(highest > >observed nanoplasmonic hot spot power density) would that not compress > the > >electric field of the light wave localized in the hot spot. > > I suggest you take another look at the experiment you are quoting, and > extract > the actual energy in the laser pulse, and the area over which it was > spread. > That will give you an energy flux. Since you know what the material is, > you can > make a guess at how many atoms absorbed the energy, and determine very > roughly > how much each one got. You can also calculate how much each electron would > get > if the pulse were absorbed by electrons. > [snip] > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
