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The authors study theoretically reflection on the surface of a metamaterial with a hyperbolic dispersion. It is found that reflection is strongly dependent on how the surface is terminated with respect to the asymptote of the hyperbolic…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-10 Xin Li , Zixian Liang , Xiaohan Liu , Xunya Jiang , Jian Zi

Surface waves supported by structured metallic surfaces, i.e. metasurfaces, have drawn wide attention recently. They are promising for various applications ranging from integrated photonic circuits to imaging and bio-sensing in various…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Oubo You , Wenlong Gao , Yachao Liu , Yuanxiang Jiang , Shuang Zhang

Reflection at an interface separating two different media is a rather universal phenomenon which arises because of wave mismatching at the interface. By means of supersymmetric quantum mechanics methods, it is shown that a fully transparent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Longhi , G. Della Valle

The polarization-sensitive propagation in the anisotropic metamaterial (AMM) with double-sheeted hyperboloid dispersion relation is investigated from a purely wave propagation point of view. We show that TE and TM polarized waves present…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-20 Hailu Luo , Zhongzhou Ren

We consider the propagation of polarized light in the medium with an isotropic refraction index profile and show that polarization violates the additional symmetries of the medium. Then we suggest a scheme for the construction of…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-03 Mher Davtyan , Zhyrair Gevorkian , Armen Nersessian

Guided wave dispersion is commonly assessed by Fourier analysis of the field along a line, resulting in frequency-wavenumber dispersion curves. In anisotropic plates, a point source can generate multiple dispersion branches pertaining to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Daniel A. Kiefer , Sylvain Mezil , Claire Prada

We consider the polarization arising from scattering in an envelope illuminated by a central anisotropic source. Spherical harmonics are used to describe both the light source anisotropy and the envelope density distribution functions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-16 R Ignace , M Al-Malki , J Simmons , J C Brown , D Clarke , J Carson

Refraction and diffraction of waves in natural crystals and artificial crystals formed by anisotropically scattering centers are considered. A detailed study of the electromagnetic wave refraction in a two-dimensional photonic crystal…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-30 V. G. Baryshevsky , E. A. Gurnevich

In this paper, scattering of incident plane waves from rough surfaces have been modeled in a fractional space. It is shown how wave scattering from a rough surface, could be a simple reflection problem in a fractional space. In the integer…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-31 H. Safdari , M. Vahabi , G. R. Jafari

Surface wave propagation at the interface between different types of gyrotropic materials and an isotropic negatively refracting medium, in which the relative permittivity and relative permeability are, simultaneously, negative is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan D. Boardman , Neil King , Yuriy Rapoport , Larry Velasco

We show that periodically doped, flat surfaces can act as reflective diffraction gratings for atomic and molecular matter waves. The diffraction element is realized by exploiting that charged dopants locally suppress quantum reflection from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-16 Benjamin A. Stickler , Uzi Even , Klaus Hornberger

We demonstrate that single scattering of p-polarized waves from uncorrelated surface and volume disorder can lead to perfect depolarization. The degree of polarization is shown to vanish in specific scattering directions that can be…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-30 Jean-Philippe Banon , Ingve Simonsen , Rémi Carminati

By the use of Green's second integral identity we determine the field scattered from a two-dimensional randomly rough isotropic or anisotropic Dirichlet or Neumann surface when it is illuminated by a scalar Gaussian beam. The integral…

This paper considers the refraction and diffraction of waves in three-dimensional crystals formed by anisotropically scattering centers. The partial wave expansion method is used to consider the effect of multiple rescattering of waves by…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-08 V. G. Baryshevsky , E. A. Gurnevich

Reflective ptychography is a promising lensless imaging technique with a wide field of view, offering significant potential for applications in semiconductor manufacturing and detection. However, many semiconductor materials are coated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Yun Gao , Qijun You , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao

We investigate the inherent influence of light polarization on the intensity distribution in anisotropic media undergoing a local inhomogeneous rotation of the principal axes. Whereas in general such configuration implies a complicated…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-07 Alessandro Alberucci , Chandroth Pannian Jisha

We discuss different applications and potentials of reciprocal bianisotropic metasurfaces including uniform and gradient metasurfaces, in particular, with anisotropic, chiral, and omega properties. Based on an analytic analysis, we discuss…

Evanescent matter-waves produced by an atom wave packet incident onto a repulsive barrier edge can be back-refracted and reconstructed by the application of negative-index "comoving" potential pulses. One shows that those collapses and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 V. Bocvarski , J. Baudon , M. Hamamda , M. Boustimi , F. Perales , G. Dutier , C. Mainos , M. Ducloy

The atmospheres of (exo) planets and moons, as well as reflection nebulae, contain in general independently scattering particles in random orientation and are often supposed to be plane-parallel. Relations are presented for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-23 J. W. Hovenier D. M. Stam

We propose a new method for calculating reflection and transmission coefficients for an arbitrarily polarized electromagnetic plane wave incident on a one-dimensional dielectric medium of finite thickness and with dielectric permittivity…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-27 N. A. Vanyushkin , A. H. Gevorgyan , S. S. Golik