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Microfiber Resonators in the Linear and the Nonlinear Regimes
2008
International audience; The microfiber resonators presented here were made by forming an open knot with silica microfibers in air. Resonance spectra were observed in the near infrared and more recently in the visible. The knot structure was mechanically stable and was maintained upon immersion in a liquid. Upon immersion the change of refractive index of the medium surrounding the knot shifted the spectral region where resonances were observed. Moreover, using a liquid which could be polymerized, we have imbedded microfiber knot resonators in a solid matrix to form rugged devices. In the presence of nonlinearity a resonator can exhibit bistability. This behaviour was studied both numericall…
Demonstration of a reef knot microfiber resonator.
2009
We propose a new way to realize a microfiber optical resonator by implementing the topology of a reef knot using two microfibers. We describe how this structure, which includes 4 ports and can serve as an add-drop filter, can be fabricated. Resonances in an all-silica reef knot are measured and good fits are obtained from a simple resonator model. We also show the feasibility of assembling a hybrid silica-chalcogenide reef knot structure.
Scaling behavior of topologically constrained polymer rings in a melt
2014
Large scale molecular dynamics simulations on graphic processing units (GPUs) are employed to study the scaling behavior of ring polymers with various topological constraints in melts. Typical sizes of rings containing $3_1$, $5_1$ knots and catenanes made up of two unknotted rings scale like $N^{1/3}$ in the limit of large ring sizes $N$. This is consistent with the crumpled globule model and similar findings for unknotted rings. For small ring lengths knots occupy a significant fraction of the ring. The scaling of typical ring sizes for small $N$ thus depends on the particular knot type and the exponent is generally larger than 0.4.
Two‐dimensional metric spheres from gluing hemispheres
2022
We study metric spheres (Z,dZ) obtained by gluing two hemispheres of S2 along an orientation-preserving homeomorphism g:S1→S1, where dZ is the canonical distance that is locally isometric to S2 off the seam. We show that if (Z,dZ) is quasiconformally equivalent to S2, in the geometric sense, then g is a welding homeomorphism with conformally removable welding curves. We also show that g is bi-Lipschitz if and only if (Z,dZ) has a 1-quasiconformal parametrization whose Jacobian is comparable to the Jacobian of a quasiconformal mapping h:S2→S2. Furthermore, we show that if g−1 is absolutely continuous and g admits a homeomorphic extension with exponentially integrable distortion, then (Z,dZ) …
Sobolev homeomorphic extensions onto John domains
2020
Given the planar unit disk as the source and a Jordan domain as the target, we study the problem of extending a given boundary homeomorphism as a Sobolev homeomorphism. For general targets, this Sobolev variant of the classical Jordan-Schoenflies theorem may admit no solution - it is possible to have a boundary homeomorphism which admits a continuous $W^{1,2}$-extension but not even a homeomorphic $W^{1,1}$-extension. We prove that if the target is assumed to be a John disk, then any boundary homeomorphism from the unit circle admits a Sobolev homeomorphic extension for all exponents $p<2$. John disks, being one sided quasidisks, are of fundamental importance in Geometric Function Theory.
Pants complex, TQFT and hyperbolic geometry
2021
We present a coarse perspective on relations of the $SU(2)$-Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT, the Weil-Petersson geometry of the Teichm\"uller space, and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Using data from the asymptotic expansions of the curve operators in the skein theoretic version of the $SU(2)$-TQFT, as developed by Blanchet, Habegger, Masbaum and Vogel, we define the quantum intersection number between pants decompositions of a closed surface. We show that the quantum intersection number admits two sided bounds in terms of the geometric intersection number and we use it to obtain a metric on the pants graph of surfaces. Using work of Brock we show that the pants graph equipped with this …
4-Manifold topology II: Dwyer's filtration and surgery kernels
1995
Even when the fundamental group is intractable (i.e. not "good") many interesting 4-dimensional surgery problems have topological solutions. We unify and extend the known examples and show how they compare to the (presumed) counterexamples by reference to Dwyer's filtration on second homology. The development brings together many basic results on the nilpotent theory of links. As a special case, a class of links only slightly smaller than "homotopically trivial links" is shown to have (free) slices on their Whitehead doubles.