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From the earth's crust to the human brain, remitted waves are used for sensing and imaging in a diverse range of diffusive media. Separating the source and detector increases the penetration depth of remitted light, yet rapidly decreases…

We introduce a method to experimentally measure the monochromatic transmission matrix of a complex medium in optics. This method is based on a spatial phase modulator together with a full-field interferometric measurement on a camera. We…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-10 S. M. Popoff , G. Lerosey , R. Carminati , M. Fink , A. C. Boccara , S. Gigan

Binary systems of two compact objects circularize and spiral toward each other via the emission of gravitational waves. The coupling of the spins of each object with the orbital angular momentum causes the orbital plane to precess, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Neil Cornish , Nicolas Yunes

In this paper, we propose an approach combining diffusion models and inverse problems for the reconstruction of circumstellar disk images. Our method builds upon the Rhapsodie framework for polarimetric imaging, substituting its classical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Quentin Villegas , Laurence Denneulin , Simon Prunet , André Ferrari , Nelly Pustelnik , Éric Thiébaut , Julian Tachella , Maud Langlois

We address propagation and entanglement of Gaussian states in optical media characterised by non-trivial spectral densities. In particular, we consider environments with a finite bandwidth and show that in the low temperature regime: i)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Berihu Teklu , Matteo Bina , Matteo G. A. Paris

We show that customized optical patterns can be generated by employing feedback-based wavefront shaping without prior knowledge of the transmission matrix of optical systems. To control the spatial distribution of intensity within the…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-04 Peilong Hong

We study the optimal diffusive transmission and absorption of broadband or polychromatic light in a disordered medium. By introducing matrices describing broadband transmission and reflection, we formulate an extremal eigenvalue problem…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-26 Chia Wei Hsu , Arthur Goetschy , Yaron Bromberg , A. Douglas Stone , Hui Cao

We present a stochastic description of multiple scattering of polarized waves in the regime of forward scattering. In this regime, if the source is polarized, polarization survives along a few transport mean free paths, making it possible…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-07-19 Jérémie Boulanger , Nicolas le Bihan , Vincent Rossetto

In this work we include the elastic scattering of longitudinal electromagnetic waves in transport theory using a medium filled with point-like, electric dipoles. The interference between longitudinal and transverse waves creates two new…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-17 B. A. van Tiggelen , S. E. Skipetrov

We report a method to characterize the propagation of an ultrashort pulse of light through a multiple scattering medium by measuring its time-resolved transmission matrix. This method is based on the use of a spatial light modulator…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-26 Mickael Mounaix , Hugo Defienne , Sylvain Gigan

Diffraction-limited imaging through complex scattering media is a long sought after goal with important applications in biomedical research. In recent years, high resolution wavefront-shaping has emerged as a powerful approach to generate a…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yefeng Guan , Yaron Silberberg

A random medium can serve as a controllable arbitrary spectral filter with spectral resolution determined by the inverse of the interaction time of the light in the medium. We use wavefront shaping to implement an arbitrary spectral…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Eran Small , Ori Katz , Yefeng Guan , Yaron Silberberg

We propose and demonstrate theoretically a method to achieve and design optical nonlinear responses through a light-mediated spatial hybridization of different standard nonlinearities. The mechanism is based on the fact that optical…

Optics · Physics 2008-04-24 Alessandro Ciattoni , Eugenio Del Re , Carlo Rizza , Andrea Marini

This paper employs layer potential techniques to investigate wave scattering in two-dimensional elastic media exhibiting high contrasts in both Lam\'{e} parameters and density. Our contributions are fourfold. First, we construct an…

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We study the propagation of waves in a set of absorbing subwavelength scatterers positioned on a stealth hyperuniform point pattern. We show that spatial correlations in the disorder substantially enhance absorption compared to a fully…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Florian Bigourdan , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

We study the existence of monotone traveling wave solutions in a class of nonclassical diffusion equations that include both standard diffusion and a higher-order mixed space-time dispersive term. The reaction term is nonlinear and subject…

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This paper is concerned with the asymptotic description of high-frequency waves in locally periodic media. A key issue is that the Bloch-dispersion curves vary with the local microstructure, giving rise to hidden singularities associated…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-13 Ory Schnitzer

Diffraction limit is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information that results from decay of evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics yields no information about an object's subwavelength features. Here…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-24 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

We address shock waves generated upon the interaction of tilted plane waves with negative refractive index defect in defocusing media with linear gain and two-photon absorption. We found that in contrast to conservative media where…

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