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Light transmission through 2D subwavelength hole arrays in perfect-conductor films is shown to be complete (100%) at some resonant wavelengths even for arbitrarily narrow holes. Conversely, the reflection on a 2D planar array of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 F. J. Garcia de Abajo , R. Gomez-Medina , J. J. Saenz

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional counterpart of metamaterials, have caught great attention thanks to their powerful capabilities on manipulation of electromagnetic waves. Recent times have seen the emergence of a variety of metasurfaces…

We show that two-dimensional arrays of thin metallic wires can guide transverse electromagnetic (TEM) waves and focus them to the spatial dimensions much smaller that the vacuum wavelength. This guiding property is retained for the tapered…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Shvets , S. Trendafilov , J. B. Pendry , A. Sarychev

Periodic leaky-wave antennas can be realized with planar low-profile structures supporting the generation of highly directional beams with frequency scanning from backward to forward directions. We propose a method to generate leaky modes…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Yuhuan Tong , Beatrice Ambrogi , Davide Comite , Guido Valerio

Grating magneto-optical traps are an enabling quantum technology for portable metrological devices with ultracold atoms. However, beam diffraction efficiency and angle are affected by wavelength, creating a single-optic design challenge for…

We present a conditional diffusion model for electromagnetic inverse design that generates structured media geometries directly from target differential scattering cross-section profiles, bypassing expensive iterative optimization. Our 1D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mikhail Tsukerman , Konstantin Grotov , Pavel Ginzburg

Two-dimensional terahertz spectroscopy (2DTS) is a low-frequency analogue of two-dimensional optical spectroscopy that is rapidly maturing as a probe of a wide variety of condensed matter systems. However, a persistent problem of 2DTS is…

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive and mathematically rigorous analysis on determining the existence of subwavelength resonance in elastic metascreen and resonance frequency calculation based on asymptotic analysis of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Wei Wu , Youzi He

Similar to their optic counterparts, acoustic components are anticipated to flexibly tailor the propagation of sound. However, the practical applications, e.g. for audible sound with large wavelengths, are frequently hampered by the issue…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-16 Kun Tang , Chunyin Qiu , Manzhu Ke , Jiuyang Lu , Yangtao Ye , Zhengyou Liu

Evanescent wave amplification is observed, for the first time to our knowledge, inside a half-wavelength-thick wire medium slab used for subwavelength imaging. The wire medium is analyzed using both a spatially dispersive finite-difference…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Yan Zhao , Pavel A. Belov , Yang Hao

Digital metasurfaces have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their ability to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves for secure sensing and communication. However, most reported metasurfaces operate at relatively high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Longpan Wang , Zhuoran Zhang , Zhenyuan Li , Xuetao Gan , Xudong Bai , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu

Wavefront shaping is a powerful method to refocus light through a scattering medium. Its application to large spectral bandwidths or multiple wavelengths refocusing for nonlinear bio-imaging in-depth is however limited by spectral…

Graded metasurfaces exploit the local momentum imparted by an impedance gradient to transform the impinging wavefront. This approach suffers from fundamental limits on the overall conversion efficiency and it is challenged by fabrication…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Younes Ra'di , Dimitrios L. Sounas , Andrea Alu

Light-matter interactions inside turbid medium can be controlled by tailoring the spatial distribution of energy density throughout the system. Wavefront shaping allows selective coupling of incident light to different transmission…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-06 M. Koirala , R. Sarma , H. Cao , A. Yamilov

We study the prospects of controlling transmission of broadband and bi-chromatic laser pulses through turbid samples. The ability to focus transmitted broadband light is limited via both the scattering properties of the medium, and the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Evgeny A. Shapiro , Thomas M. Drane , Valery Milner

A two-dimensional signal space for intensity- modulated channels is presented. Modulation formats using this signal space are designed to maximize the minimum distance between signal points while satisfying average and peak power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-07 Johnny Karout , Gerhard Kramer , Frank R. Kschischang , Erik Agrell

The ability to design passive structures that perform different operations on different electromagnetic fields is key to many technologies, from beam-steering to optical computing. While many techniques have been developed to optimise…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 J. R. Capers , S. J. Boyes , A. P. Hibbins , S. A. R. Horsley

The propagation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) on GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures is studied in the case where the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is subject to a strong magnetic field and a smooth random potential with correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Knaebchen , Yehoshua Levinson , Ora Entin-Wohlman

Superfocusing confines light within subwavelength structures, breaking the diffraction limit. Structures with spatial singularities, such as metallic cones, are crucial to enable nanoscale focusing, leading to significant advancements in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-14 Qianru Yang , Haotian Wu , Hao Hu , F. J. García-Vidal , Guangwei Hu , Yu Luo

Recently, an achromatic metasurface was successfully demonstrated to deflect light of multiple wavelengths in the same direction and it was further applied to the design of planar lenses without chromatic aberrations [Science, 347,…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-16 Zi-Lan Deng , Shuang Zhang , Guo Ping Wang