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Apr 26 |
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Cooling a cup of coffee with help of a spoon Argh. No SI units :P |
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Apr 26 |
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What software programs are used to draw physics diagrams, and what are their relative merits? I used matplotlib for many graphics in my thesis. The only downside is the lack of tex output. This meant I had to import my .svg files in Inkscape to add text an then export is as tex. |
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Apr 26 |
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Software for geometrical optics I thought of raytracers when I wrote my comment since they can calculate (some) aspects of wave optics but clearly you are right. |
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Jan 21 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jan 21 |
accepted | How can the 5-photon absorption coefficient be estimated? |
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Jan 21 |
answered | How can the 5-photon absorption coefficient be estimated? |
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Jan 18 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 18 |
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How can the 5-photon absorption coefficient be estimated? I think you are mixing two things here: The non-linear coefficients rise as powers of two, where the intensity rises by one. Simply stated this stems from the fact that polarisation depends on electric field like $P(E)=\chi^1 |E| + \chi^3 |E|^3 + ...$ and since the absorption loss $W$ depends on $W=P * E$ you get $W_5=\chi^9 |E^9|*E = \chi^9 * I^5$. Thus in essence I am interested in the $\chi^9$ coefficient for 5-photon absorption. |
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Jan 18 |
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Looking for a reference book, or book chapter to learn about piezoelectricity corrected grammar |
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Jan 17 |
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How can the 5-photon absorption coefficient be estimated? Hmm, could you elaborate on what you mean by "leading order difference"? |
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Jan 17 |
answered | Looking for a reference book, or book chapter to learn about piezoelectricity |
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Jan 17 |
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Withstanding charlatans: How to protect friends from buying “water structuring facilities”? This question should be expanded to "How to protect from homeopathy". The same arguments against it holds for the water people just as well. |
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Jan 17 |
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How can the 5-photon absorption coefficient be estimated? Indeed, those effects are extremely small. I want to show that this process is irrelevant in comparison to any intensities that might be produced in a lab. I could go for a rough estimate and just say that if 2 or 3-photon absorption has very small values, then 5 will certainly be neglegible. |
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Jan 16 |
asked | How can the 5-photon absorption coefficient be estimated? |
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Nov 13 |
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Bandgap Spacing in Photonic Crystals Also, isn't the Bragg formula used for constructive interference? If so you'd have to take d*0.5 |
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Nov 13 |
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Bandgap Spacing in Photonic Crystals What exactly is an amorphous photonic crystal? One which has no long-range order? |
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Nov 13 |
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Are a quantum mechanical system a chaotic (yet deterministic) system? Your point 1 is wrong. QM systems are deterministic. It is a statistical theory, yes, and single outcomes of an experiment might look random but an ensemble of experimental outcomes is definitely deterministic. |
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Jun 25 |
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Jun 25 |
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What is your prefered toolkit / program for 3D visualisations of data? Btw: How is this not off-topic: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/11451/… ?? Oh wait, it relates to HEP. Must be valid I guess. |
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Jun 25 |
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What is your prefered toolkit / program for 3D visualisations of data? Not constructive/off topic? How can analysing ones data efficiently not be constructive? I guess I'm not thinking like a theorist here, lacking imagination. Oddly enought all the journals I read seem to show what I'm talking about. Guess people don't read Science, Nature, PRL, etc. any more. |
