Nature Photonics Cover

[PhysicsMathMan]

Hi all,

Recently, my scientific suggestion was shown to work and I am to be published in Nature Photonics. A neat aspect of this journal is that an artistic representation of the phenomenon can be submitted and if accepted, will be displayed as the cover.

I have a decent amount of experience in several modeling programs but am very new to photoshop. That being said, if anyone is willing to help me create an artistic representation of my idea and it is accepted as the cover, I would not only be grateful but would acknowledge them as the creator/co-creator.

Pictorially, the idea should look like this. A large doughnut-like red laser beam initially surrounds a small white-bluish glowing plasma channel. The large beam should slowly move toward the center and appear to provide fuel to make the glowing portion travel further.

Let me know if you are interested and thank you,

Matt

P.S. I am not able to post links on this site yet. I can give you example images of the idea; if you are interested let me know and I'll message you some links

 

[besmirched]

Can you take a photo and post it here?

 

[PhysicsMathMan]

A rough first order attempt:

[httpcolon]//imgur[dotcom]/LlcMReN,2Vc96O4,mDnL4b6,zlQ45dZ#0

An existing cover:

[httpcolon]//imgur[dotcom]/LlcMReN,2Vc96O4,mDnL4b6,zlQ45dZ#1

Figure:

[httpcolon]//imgur[dotcom]/LlcMReN,2Vc96O4,mDnL4b6,zlQ45dZ#2

Figure:

[httpcolon]//imgur[dotcom]/LlcMReN,2Vc96O4,mDnL4b6,zlQ45dZ#3

Try these after replacing the dotcom and http:

 

[Tom Mann]

What's the name of this phenomenon? Is the length scale microns, millimeters, or meters? Should an institutional logo also appear in the graphic?

Links would be very helpful. They work if you obfuscate them. Just spell them out.

Tom

 

[Tom Mann]

PS-congratulations on the acceptance of your article in Nature Photonics. That's a fairly tough journal to get into.

T

 

[Tom Mann]

More questions:

Is the surrounding medium vacuum, gas, or solid-state? If it's solid-state, should we in include a representation of the lattice or the dispersion relation in k-space / band gap

 

[PhysicsMathMan]

besmirtched I will try to post the pictures again tomorrow at work.

Tom Thank you, I'm very excited about it! The optics phenomenon is called filamentation and my idea is used to extend the process (we are calling it dressed filaments); the paper is the experimental verification of the short theory paper written about a year ago.

The cover is judged on artistic appeal and not scientific accuracy so the scales, media, etc are not so important. In any case, it would be in air, real-space (k-omega space for filaments is a mess), and on the order of meters. No logo is needed -- just the picture

Matt

 

[Tom Mann]

@PSG-Photoshoppers: I think it will help your artistic thought processes to take a look at the Figs. 3b and 4a in this article:
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/fulltext.cfm?uri=ol-38-1-25&id=247176

This very short article does a very nice job of explaining the phenomena. It's written clearly enough that I think the basic idea behind the phenomena are accessible to anyone, even folks without an advanced physics background, and that will help guide your artistic creations.

As usual, I'm not participating in this request for PS work, but I'll be happy to help out anyone with interpretation / comments.

@OP - This is probably before your time, but in the 1980's, I was on the review team for the large ETA and ATA accelerators at Livermore. As I recall, when they faced the inevitable beam stability problems and consequently limited range, theorists proposed analogous stabilizing methods based on weak, surrounding, large diameter weakly ionized plasmas to feed energy into the main beam. Unfortunately, because they wanted these beams to propagate in the atmosphere, and there were many more instability mechanisms that were not as clean as in your situation, the suggestion never was very fruitful. It's nice to see a return of the general approach.

Tom M