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This is the third article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for imaging purposes. In complex media, a fundamental limit is the multiple scattering phenomenon that completely blurs the imaging process in depth.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Elsa Giraudat , Flavien Bureau , William Lambert , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

Time-reversal (TR) refocusing of waves is one of fundamental principles in wave physics. Using the TR approach, "Time-reversal mirrors" can physically create a time-reversed wave that exactly refocus back, in space and time, to its original…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-23 G. Ducrozet , M. Fink , A. Chabchoub

After developing an appropriate iteration procedure for the determination of the parameters, the method of simulated tempering has been successfully applied to the 2D Ising spin glass. The reduction of the slowing down is comparable to that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Werner Kerler , Peter Rehberg

Temporal metamaterials, created by modulating the refractive index in time, offer powerful means of controlling wave propagation but still lack a systematic design methodology. Here, we develop an analytic inverse-design framework rooted in…

The advent of novel nonlinear materials has stirred unprecedented interest in exploring the use of temporal inhomogeneities to achieve novel forms of wave control, amidst the greater vision of engineering metamaterials across both space and…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-24 Emanuele Galiffi , Shixiong Yin , Andrea Alù

The concept of time reversal (TR) of scalar wave is reexamined from basic principles. Five different time reversal mirrors (TRM) are introduced and their relations are analyzed. For the boundary behavior, it is shown that for paraxial wave…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Albert C. Fannjiang

Rewinding the arrow of time via phase conjugation is an intriguing phenomena made possible by the wave property of light. To exploit this phenomenon, diverse research fields have pursed the realization of an ideal phase conjugation mirror,…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-29 KyeoReh Lee , Junsung Lee , Jung-Hoon Park , Ji-Ho Park , YongKeun Park

We present a new approach for spatiotemporal focusing through complex scattering media by wave front shaping. Using a nonlinear feedback signal to shape the incident pulsed wave front, we show that the limit of a spatiotemporal matched…

The time-reversal mirror (TRM) of acoustic waves is used as a focusing technique that is robust against disorder and chaos. The propagation of an ultrasonic pulse from the focal point is detected and recorded by a surrounding array of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-16 Hernan L. Calvo , Horacio M. Pastawski

Based on the similarity of paraxial diffraction and dispersion mathematical descriptions, the temporal imaging of optical pulses combines linear dispersive filters and quadratic phase modulations operating as time lenses. We consider…

Some iterative techniques are defined to solve reversible inverse problems and a common formulation is explained. Numerical improvements are suggested and tests validate the methods.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Sébastien Marinesque

We study in this work the so-called "instantaneous time mirrors" in the context of surface plasmons. The latter are associated with high frequency waves at the surface of a conducting sheet. Instantaneous time mirrors were introduced by M.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Olivier Pinaud

Wavefield focusing is often achieved by Time-Reversal Mirrors, where wavefields emitted by a source located at the focal point are evaluated at a closed boundary and sent back, after Time-Reversal, into the medium from that boundary.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Giovanni Angelo Meles , Joost van der Neut , Koen W. A. van Dongen , Kees Wapenaar

We designed a metallic programmable mirror for optical wavelengths made up of a large number of discrete steps which can be moved independently by actuators. The device is able to easily reshape an incident beam, imprinting on it an optical…

Optics · Physics 2011-11-16 Fabio Antonio Bovino , Matteo Braccini , Mario Bertolotti

Time reversal of acoustic waves can be achieved efficiently by the persistent control of excitations in a finite region of the system. The procedure, called Time Reversal Mirror, is stable against the inhomogeneities of the medium and it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Hernán L. Calvo , Horacio M. Pastawski

We introduce a new update scheme to systematically improve the efficiency of parallel tempering simulations. We show that by adapting the number of sweeps between replica exchanges to the canonical autocorrelation time, the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-26 Elmar Bittner , Andreas Nussbaumer , Wolfhard Janke

We develop time integration methods in low-rank representation that can adaptively adjust approximation ranks to achieve a prescribed accuracy, while ensuring that these ranks remain proportional to the corresponding best approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Markus Bachmayr , Matthieu Dolbeault , Polina Sachsenmaier

We demonstrate that the diffusion coefficient, $D$, for ultrasound propagating in a multiple scattering medium, such as a dense granular suspension, can be measured using a time reversal experiment. This requires an unprecedented…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-27 Y. Abraham , B. A. van Tiggelen , N. Benech , C. Negreira , X. Jia , A. Tourin

Computational time reversal imaging can be used to locate the position of multiple scatterers in a known background medium. Here, we discuss a sparse approximation method for computational time-reversal imaging. The method is formulated…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2009-04-23 M. Andrecut

We apply robust control technics to an adaptive optics system including a dynamic model of the deformable mirror. The dynamic model of the mirror is a modification of the usual plate equation. We propose also a state-space approach to model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Lucie Baudouin , Denis Arzelier , Christophe Prieur , Fabien Guignard