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We examine the Seidel aberrations of thin spherical lenses composed of media with refractive index not restricted to be positive. We find that consideration of this expanded parameter space allows reduction or elimination of more…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Schurig , D. R. Smith

Accurate orientation estimation of objects can aid in scene understanding in many applications. In this paper, we consider use cases where passive tags could be deployed to assist radar systems in estimating object orientation. Towards that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Onel L. A. López , Zhu Han , Ashutosh Sabharwal

A general energy dispersion relation is developed for metamaterials having the negative-refraction (NR) property. It is shown that absorption effects are involved with NR phenomena, and the conditions under which NR occurs are discussed.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Ben-Aryeh

Deconvolution phase microscopy enables high-contrast visualization of transparent samples through reconstructions of their transmitted phases or refractive indexes. Herein, we propose a method to extend 2D deconvolution phase microscopy to…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-20 Herve Hugonnet , Mahn Jae Lee , Yongkeun Park

Remote sensing provides valuable information about objects or areas from a distance in either active (e.g., RADAR and LiDAR) or passive (e.g., multispectral and hyperspectral) modes. The quality of data acquired by remotely sensed imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Benhood Rasti , Yi Chang , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Pedram Ghamisi

Distance transformation is an image processing technique used for many different applications. Related to a binary image, the general idea is to determine the distance of all background points to the nearest object point (or vice versa). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Tilo Strutz

Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has exhibited significant success in novel view synthesis, surface reconstruction, etc. However, since no physical reflection is considered in its rendering pipeline, NeRF mistakes the reflection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Junyi Zeng , Chong Bao , Rui Chen , Zilong Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

In this paper, we point out that the definition of weak tracial approximation can be improved and strengthened. An example of weak tracial approximation is also provided.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Xiaochun Fang , Junqi Yang

Contents: I. Introduction II. Manifolds in random media III. Thermal fluctuations without disorder IV. Random forces V. Random potential: variational approach VI. Physical interpretation of the solution

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Marc Mezard

This paper intends to realize negative refraction with absorption suppressed by the electromagneticly induced transparency(EIT) in a dense four-level atomic system. Without the two equal transition frequencies responding to the probe field,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Shun-Cai Zhao

We discuss the feasibility of negative refraction with reduced absorption in coherently driven atomic media. Coherent coupling of an electric and a magnetic dipole transition by laser fields induces magneto-electric cross-coupling and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jürgen Kästel , Michael Fleischhauer , Susanne F. Yelin , Ronald L. Walsworth

A wedge-shaped structure made of split-ring resonators (SRR) and wires is numerically simulated to evaluate its refraction behavior. Four frequency bands, namely, the stop band, left-handed band, ultralow-index band, and positive-index…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. G. Dong , S. N. Zhu , H. Liu , J. Zhu , W. Cao

This paper addresses reflection removal, which is the task of separating reflection components from a captured image and deriving the image with only transmission components. Considering that the existence of the reflection changes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Wenjiao Bian , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Refraction at a smooth interface is accompanied by momentum transfer normal to the interface. We show that corrugating an initially smooth, totally reflecting, non-metallic interface provides a momentum kick parallel to the surface, which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 W. T. Lu , Y. J. Huang , P. Vodo , R. K. Banyal , C. H. Perry , S. Sridhar

Phase delays, spectral, orientation, and angular dependences of radiation refraction in metamaterial targets have been experimentally studied within the millimeter-wave range. It has been shown that angular and spectral dependences have a…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-29 G. A. Naumenko , A. P. Potylitsyn , M. V. Shevelev , V. V. Bleko , V. V. Soboleva

Retroreflectors are optical devices that reverse the direction of incident beams of light. Here we present a collection of billiard type retroreflectors consisting of four objects; three of them are asymptotically perfect retroreflectors,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-05-20 Alexander Plakhov

Near-field microwave microscopy has created the opportunity for a new class of electrodynamics experiments of materials. Freed from the constraints of traditional microwave optics, experiments can be carried out at high spatial resolution…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven M. Anlage , D. E. Steinhauer , B. J. Feenstra , C. P. Vlahacos , F. C. Wellstood

We reconsider the refraction of evanescent waves at an interface between air and negative index medium under the assumption that negative index medium is necessarily dispersive and lossy. We show that all evanescent waves in air will be…

Optics · Physics 2009-06-26 Weiguo Yang , John O. Schenk , Michael A. Fiddy

In this paper, a new pedagogical approach for analyzing the negative feedback circuits is proposed. The presented approach is in fact the completed form of the well-known two-port network analysis which is the most intuitive method for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Morteza Fayazi , Ali Fotowat , Zahra Kavehvash

The sign of the refractive index of any medium is soley determined by the requirement that the propagation of an electromagnetic wave obeys Einstein causality. Our analysis shows that this requirement predicts that the real part of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yi-Fan Chen , Peer Fischer , Frank W. Wise