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Publications and source records attributed to D. G. Baranov.
We present an electrodynamical model of a novel quantum plasmonic device - magneto-optical spaser. It is shown that a spherical gain nanoparticle coated with a metallic magneto-optical shell can operate as a spaser amplifying circularly polarized surface plasmons. The magneto-optical spaser may be used in design of optical isolator in plasmonic transmission lines as well as in spaser spectrometry of chiral molecules.
We propose an exactly solvable quasi-classical model of a spaser. The gain medium is described in terms of the nonlinear permittivity with negative losses. The model demonstrates the main features of a spaser: a self-oscillating state (spasing) arising without an external driving field if the pumping exceeds some threshold value, synchronization of a spaser by an external field within the Arnold tongue, and the possibility of compensating for Joule losses when the pumping is below threshold. Similar to the common laser, a transition to the spasing regime takes a form of the Hopf bifurcation.
Longitudinal distributions of the photospheric magnetic field studied on the base of National Solar Observatory (Kitt Peak) data (1976 - 2003) displayed two opposite patterns during different parts of the 11-year solar cycle. Heliolongitudinal distributions differed for the ascending phase and the maximum of the solar cycle on one hand, and for the descending phase and the minimum on the other, depicting maxima around two opposite Carrington longitudes (180 deg. and 0/360 deg.). Thus the maximum of the distribution shifted its position by 180 deg. with the transition from one characteristic period to the other. Two characteristic periods correspond to different situations occurring in the 22-year magnetic cycle of the Sun, in the course of which both global magnetic field and the magnetic field of the leading sunspot in a group change their sign. During the ascending phase and the maximum (active longitude 180 deg.) polarities of the global magnetic field and those of the leading sunspots coincide, whereas for the descending phase and the minimum (active longitude 0/360 deg.) the polarities are opposite. Thus the observed change of active longitudes may be connected with the polarity changes of Sun's magnetic field in the course of 22-year magnetic cycle.