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Recently, Lemoult et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 064301 (2011)] used time reversal to focus sound above an array of soda cans into a spot much smaller than the acoustic wavelength in air. In this study, we show that equally sharp focusing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 A. A. Maznev , Gen Gu , Shu-yuan Sun , Jun Xu , Yong Shen , Nicholas Fang , Shu-yi Zhang

This paper proposes a technique for designing flat lenses using Field Transformation (FT), as opposed to Ray Optics (RO) or Transformation Optics (TO). The lens design consists of 10 layers of graded index dielectric in the radial direction…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-06 Sidharath Jain , Mohamed Abdel-Mageed , Raj Mittra

Thin structured surfaces allow flexible control over propagation of electromagnetic waves. Focusing and polarization state analysis are among functions, required for effective manipulation of radiation. Here a polarization sensitive Fresnel…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Hen Markovich , Dmitrii Filonov , Ivan Shishkin , Pavel Ginzburg

A light ray in space is characterized by two vectors: (i) a transverse spatial-vector associated with the point where the ray intersects a given spherical cap; (ii) an angular-frequency vector which defines the ray direction of propagation.…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-10 Éric Fogret , Pierre Pellat-Finet

The article considers the discrete analogue of the method of quickest descent for an inverse Acoustics problem in case of a smooth source. The authors derived the gradient of functional in differential and discrete cases, described the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-01-19 G. Tyulepberdinova , G. Gaziz , N. Kerimbayev , S. Abdykarimova

Algorithmic differentiable ray tracing is a new paradigm that allows one to solve the forward problem of how light propagates through an optical system while obtaining gradients of the simulation results with respect to parameters…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-26 Bart de Koning , Alexander Heemels , Aurèle Adam , Matthias Möller

Metamaterials--artificially structured materials with tailored electromagnetic response--can be designed to have properties difficult to achieve with existing materials. Here we present a structured metamaterial, based on conducting split…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. R. Smith , J. J. Mock , A. F. Starr , D. Schurig

Traditional saliency map methods, popularized in computer vision, highlight individual points (pixels) of the input that contribute the most to the model's output. However, in time series, they offer limited insights, as semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Christodoulos Kechris , Jonathan Dan , David Atienza

Aberrations limit scanning fluorescence microscopy when imaging in scattering materials such as biological tissue. Model-based approaches for adaptive optics take advantage of a computational model of the optical setup. Such models can be…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ivan Vishniakou , Johannes D. Seelig

We implement an efficient method of computation of two dimensional Fourier-type integrals based on approximation of the integrand by Gaussian radial basis functions, which constitute a standard tool in approximation theory. As a result, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-07 A. Martinez-Finkelshtein , D. Ramos-Lopez , D. R. Iskander

Based on diffraction theory and the propagation of the light, Fourier optics is a powerful tool allowing the estimation of a visible-range imaging system to transfer the spatial frequency components of an object. The analyses of the imaging…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Stephane Perrin , Paul Montgomery

Score-based diffusion models provide a powerful way to model images using the gradient of the data distribution. Leveraging the learned score function as a prior, here we introduce a way to sample data from a conditional distribution given…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye

Multi-object or integral field spectrographs are recognized techniques for achieving simultaneous spectroscopic observations of different or extended sky objects with a high multiplex factor. In this communication is described a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-14 Francois Henault , Florence Laurent

A sharp bending scheme for the self-collimation of acoustic waves is proposed by simply truncating the sonic crystals. An all-angle and wide-band 90{\deg}-bending wave guide is demonstrated with nearly perfect transmissions for Gaussian…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 Bo Li , Ke Deng , Heping Zhao

Recent advances in foundation models have enabled audio-generative models that produce high-fidelity sounds associated with music, events, and human actions. Despite the success achieved in modern audio-generative models, the conventional…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Tiantian Feng , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Shrikanth Narayanan

The development of innovative terahertz (THz) imaging systems has recently moved in the focus of scientific efforts due to the ability to screen substances through textiles or plastics. The invention of THz imaging systems with high spatial…

In learning with noisy labels, for every instance, its label can randomly walk to other classes following a transition distribution which is named a noise model. Well-studied noise models are all instance-independent, namely, the transition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Antonin Berthon , Bo Han , Gang Niu , Tongliang Liu , Masashi Sugiyama

In this paper, a novel structural Luneburg lens with local resonators is proposed. This lens allows for the realization of subwavelength focusing in low frequency range. The lens is achieved by graded refractive index from the lens centre…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Liuxian Zhao , Xuxu Zhuang , Hao Guo , Chuanxing Bi , Zhaoyong Sun

This is the first article in a series of two dealing with a matrix approach for aberration quantification and correction in ultrasound imaging. Advanced synthetic beamforming relies on a double focusing operation at transmission and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 William Lambert , Justine Robin , Laura A. Cobus , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

Astigmatic Defocus Sensor is a very simple and easy technique for measuring the amount of defocus (deviation from the focal plane) present in an optical beam. The approach uses a cylindrical lens to focus the beam and the measure of the…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-24 Santau Konwar