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To overcome the resolution limit of conventional optics, near field imaging techniques using a negative index flat lens (NIFL) have been previously developed that amplify the evanescent components of the incident field. Here, a technique is…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-23 Wyatt Adams , Durdu Ö. Güney

Generalised contact structures are studied from the point of view of reduced generalised complex structures, naturally incorporating non-coorientable structures as non-trivial fibering. The infinitesimal symmetries are described in detail,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Kyle Wright

Volumes of sub-wavelength electromagnetic elements can act like homogeneous materials: metamaterials. In analogy, sheets of optical elements such as prisms can act ray-optically like homogeneous sheet materials. In this sense, such sheets…

Optics · Physics 2009-01-27 Alasdair C. Hamilton , Johannes Courtial

Context. High accuracy astrometric instruments like Gaia aiming at an accuracy of 1 microarcsecond cannot be considered as point-like observers in the framework of relativistic modelling of observable quantities. Aims. Special-relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Anglada-Escude , S. Klioner , M. Soffel , J. Torra

We show that there exist bodies with mirror surface invisible from a point in the framework of geometrical optics. In particular, we provide an example of a connected three-dimensional body invisible from one point.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Alexander Plakhov , Vera Roshchina

We consider the interaction of atoms with the quantized electromagnetic field in the presence of materials with negative index of refraction. Spontaneous emission of an atom embedded in a negative index material is discussed. It is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jürgen Kästel , Michael Fleischhauer

We introduce and study a new graph representation where vertices are embedded in three or more dimensions, and in which the edges are drawn on the projections onto the axis-parallel planes. We show that the complete graph on $n$ vertices…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-06 N. R. Aravind , Udit Maniyar

High resolution light-sheet optical microscopy requires illuminating a sample by a thin excitation light sheet with large area. Here, we describe methods for producing light sheets with extended length, as compared to Gaussian-beam-type…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-04 Shengwang Du , Teng Zhao , Luwei Zhao

Gravitational waves can act like gravitational lenses, affecting the observed positions, brightnesses, and redshifts of distant objects. Exact expressions for such effects are derived here in general relativity, allowing for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Abraham I. Harte

Ordinal embedding aims at finding a low dimensional representation of objects from a set of constraints of the form "item $j$ is closer to item $i$ than item $k$". Typically, each object is mapped onto a point vector in a low dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Aïssatou Diallo , Johannes Fürnkranz

The Fourier inversion of phased coherent diffraction patterns offers images without the resolution and depth-of-focus limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. We report on our recent experimental images inverted using recent…

We analyze the nonlinear optics of quasi one-dimensional quantum graphs and manipulate their topology and geometry to generate for the first time nonlinearities in a simple system approaching the fundamental limits of the first and second…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-28 Rick Lytel , Shoresh Shafei , Julian H. Smith , Mark G. Kuzyk

Geometric algebra is an optimal frame work for calculating with vectors. The geometric algebra of a space includes elements that represent all the its subspaces (lines, planes, volumes, ...). Conformal geometric algebra expands this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Eckhard Hitzer

Contemporary relativity theory is restricted in two points: (1) a use of the Riemannian space-time geometry and (2) a use of inadequate (nonrelativistic) concepts. Reasons of these restrictions are analysed in [1]. Eliminating these…

General Physics · Physics 2010-07-30 Yuri A. Rylov

The inverse problem of diffraction theory in essence amounts to the reconstruction of the atomic positions of a solid from its diffraction image. From a mathematical perspective, this is a notoriously difficult problem, even in the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-23 Uwe Grimm , Michael Baake

We justify supercritical geometric optics in small time for the defocusing semiclassical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation for a large class of non-necessarily homogeneous nonlinearities. The case of a half-space with Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 D. Chiron , F. Rousset

The gravitational lensing of gravitational waves should be treated in the wave optics instead of the geometrical optics when the wave length $\lambda$ of the gravitational waves is larger than the Schwarzschild radius of the lens mass $M$.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ryuichi Takahashi

Imaging of scenes using light or other wave phenomena is subject to the diffraction limit. The spatial profile of a wave propagating between a scene and the imaging system is distorted by diffraction resulting in a loss of resolution that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Ji Hyun Nam , Andreas Velten

The refraction of a light ray by a homogeneous, isotropic and non-dispersive transparent material half-space in uniform rectilinear motion is investigated theoretically. The approach is an amalgamation of the original Fermat's principle and…

Optics · Physics 2007-12-06 Aleksandar Gjurchinovski , Aleksandar Skeparovski

Starting from well-known absolute instruments for perfect imaging, we introduce a type of rotational-symmetrical compact closed manifolds, namely geodesic lenses. We demonstrate that light rays confined on geodesic lenses are closed…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-01 Lin Xu , Xiangyang Wang , Tomáš Tyc , Chong Sheng , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu , Huanyang Chen