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Wireless communication environments are unaware of the ongoing data exchange efforts within them. Moreover, their effect on the communication quality is intractable in all but the simplest cases. The present work proposes a new paradigm,…

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We predict a novel nonlinear electromagnetic phenomenon in layered superconducting slabs irradiated from one side by an electromagnetic plane wave. We show that the reflectance and transmittance of the slab can vary over a wide range, from…

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Transmission matrices, mapping the propagation of light from one end of the tissue to the other, form an important mathematical tool in the analysis of tissue scattering and the design of wavefront shaping systems. To understand the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Anat Levin , Marina Alterman

Whereas electromagnetic surface waves are confined to a planar interface between two media, line waves exist at the one-dimensional interface between three materials. Here we derive a non-local integral equation for computing the properties…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-23 S. A. R. Horsley , A. Dwivedi

Designing microwave absorbers with customized spectrums is an attractive topic in both scientific and engineering communities. However, due to the massive number of design parameters involved, the design process is typically time-consuming…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Xiangxu He , Xiaohan Cui , C. T. Chan

We study two-way covert communication schemes, where information is transmitted by passively modulating a reflected signal back to the source. We consider optical systems, described by quantum bosonic channels. While broadband classical and…

We give a general design method for finding the passive, reciprocal surface impedance tensor required to enact any wave transformation. We do this through characterising the surface in terms of a tensorial surface impedance, showing that a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 K. O. Arnold , C. Hooper , J. Smith , N. Clow , A. P. Hibbins , J. R. Sambles , S. A. R. Horsley

Starting from fundamental multiple scattering theory it is shown that negative refraction indices are feasible for matter waves passing a well-defined ensemble of scatterers. A simple approach to this topic is presented and explicit…

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We consider the lateral shift of a light beam reflecting from a dielectric slab backed by a metal. It is found that the lateral shift of the reflected beam can be negative while the intensity of reflected beam is almost equal to the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Li-Gang Wang , Hong Chen , Nian-Hua Liu , Shi-Yao Zhu

We consider the transmission problem for the Laplace equation on an infinite three-dimensional wedge, determining the complex parameters for which the problem is well-posed, and characterizing the infinite multiplicity nature of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Karl-Mikael Perfekt

Sheets of slab waveguides with sharp corners are investigated. By means of rigorous numerical experiments, we look at oblique incidence of semi-guided plane waves. Radiation losses vanish beyond a certain critical angle of incidence. One…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-20 Manfred Hammer , Andre Hildebrandt , Jens Förstner

Electromagnetic waves undergo multiple uncontrollable alterations as they propagate within a wireless environment. Free space path loss, signal absorption, as well as reflections, refractions and diffractions caused by physical objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-06 Christos Liaskos , Shuai Nie , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

Numerous complex systems, both natural and artificial, are characterized by the presence of intertwined supply and/or drainage networks. Here we present a minimalist model of such co-evolving networks in a spatially continuous domain, where…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-07-08 Shashank Kumar Anand , Milad Hooshyar , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Amilcare Porporato

Artificially created media allow employing material parameters as additional valuable degrees of freedom in tailoring electromagnetic scattering. In particular, metamaterials with either negative permeability or permittivity allow creating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 S. Kosulnikov , D. Filonov , A. Boag , P. Ginzburg

In this paper, the asymmetric propagation of electromagnetic waves inside a two-dimensional air slit cut in an InSb slab is studied. It has been shown that due to the anisotropic magnetic properties of InSb under a DC magnetic bias, forward…

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The diffraction of electromagnetic plane waves by a rectangular grating formed by discrete steps in the interface of a homogeneous, isotropic, linear, negative phase--velocity (negative index) material with free space is studied using the…

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Data traffic over wireless communication networks has experienced a tremendous growth in the last decade, and it is predicted to exponentially increase in the next decades. Enabling future wireless networks to fulfill this expectation is a…

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In this paper, an unrolling algorithm of the iterative subspace-based optimization method (SOM) is proposed for solving full-wave inverse scattering problems (ISPs). The unrolling network, named SOM-Net, inherently embeds the Lippmann-…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Yu Liu , Hao Zhao , Rencheng Song , Xudong Chen , Chang Li , Xun Chen

A conceptual method to realize an impedance-matched electrically small antenna is discussed, using a transmission line modulated only in time. The time-periodic space-uniform modulation of a distributed shunt array of varcapacitors excites…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Alessio D'Alessandro

We study transmission in a system consisting of a curved graphene surface as an arc (ripple) of circle connected to two flat graphene sheets on the left and right sides. We introduce a mass term in the curved part and study the effect of a…

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