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We propose a new design for a multi-color, parallelized STED microscope, capable of multiple beam scanning. Our design is based on a common programmable diffracting optical element used to split, shape, and align both the excitation beams…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-21 Omer Wagner , Ori Cheshnovsky , Yael Roichman

We present an efficient way to solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE), a model for the computation of absorption spectra in molecules and solids that includes electron-hole excitations. Standard approaches to construct and diagonalize the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Wei Hu , Meiyue Shao , Andrea Cepellotti , Felipe H. da Jornada , Lin Lin , Kyle Thicke , Chao Yang , Steven G. Louie

We design, fabricate, and characterize multifunctional and compact diffractive microlenses with sub-wavelength thickness and the capability to simultaneously focus visible and near-infrared spectral bands at two different focal positions…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Wesley A. Britton , Yuyao Chen , Fabrizio Sgrignuoli , Luca Dal Negro

This paper presents an investigation of organic LED extraction efficiency enhancement using a low refractive index scattering layer. A scattering model is developed based on rigorous electromagnetic modelling techniques. The model accounts…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. F. Oulton , C. S. Adjiman , K. Handa , S. Aramaki

Metasurfaces, composed of subwavelength scattering elements, have demonstrated remarkable control over the transmitted amplitude, phase, and polarization of light. However, manipulating the amplitude upon transmission has required loss if a…

We propose a straightforward implementation of the phenomenon of diffractive focusing with uniform atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Both, analytical as well as numerical methods not only illustrate the influence of the atom-atom…

Digital micromirror device (DMD) serves in a significant part of computational optical setups as a means of encoding an image by the desired pattern. The most prominent is its usage in the so-called single-pixel camera experiment. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-24 Lukas Klein , Karel Zidek

Drift-diffusion model is an indispensable modeling tool to understand the carrier dynamics (transport, recombination, and collection) and simulate practical-efficiency of solar cells (SCs) through taking into account various carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 Xingang Ren , Zishuai Wang , Wei E. I. Sha , Wallace C. H. Choy

Unidirectional optical systems enable selective control of light through asymmetric processing of radiation, effectively transmitting light in one direction while blocking unwanted propagation in the opposite direction. Here, we introduce a…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-21 Yuhang Li , Tianyi Gan , Jingxi Li , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Spectro-polarimetric imaging provides multidimensional optical information acquisition capabilities, offering significant potential for diverse applications. Current spectro-polarimetric imaging systems typically suffer from large physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Jingyue Ma , Zhenming Yu , Zhengyang Li , Liang Lin , Liming Cheng , Jiayu Di , Tongshuo Zhang , Ning Zhan , Kun Xu

Thick diffractive optical elements offer a promising way to achieve focusing or imaging at a resolution approaching 1 nm for X-ray wavelengths shorter than about 0.1 nm. Efficient focusing requires that these are fabricated with structures…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-02 Henry N. Chapman , Saša Bajt

In general, perovskite solar cells (PSC) with a sensitized or thin film architecture absorb light from a single illumination. This paper reported a PSC architecture with a semitransparent Au/ITO counter electrode, which allows light to pass…

This paper considers coordinated multicast beamforming in a multi-cell multigroup multiple-input single-output system. Each base station (BS) serves multiple groups of users by forming a single beam with common information per group. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Oskari Tervo , Harri Pennanen , Dimitrios Christopoulos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In a recent experiment [1], it was observed that a sequence of two standing wave square pulses can split a BEC at rest into +/- 2 h_bar k diffraction orders with almost 100% efficiency. By truncating the Raman-Nath equations to a 2-state…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Saijun Wu , Yingju Wang , Quentin Diot , Mara Prentiss

We develop an open source software "GDoeSII" for the simulation of Fresnel (near field) and Fraunhofer (far field) diffraction integrals of diffractive optical elements (DOE). It can compute the intensity distributions at a desired plane…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Raghu Dharmavarapu , Shanti Bhattacharya , Saulius Juodkazis

An approach using a differential evolution (DE) optimization algorithm is proposed to optimize design parameters for improving the optical absorption efficiency of plasmonic solar cells (PSC). This approach is based on formulating the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Ankit Vora , Satyadhar Joshi , Arun Matai , Joshua M. Pearce , Durdu Guney

We present a framework for designing optimal optical pulses for the matter-wave splitting of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) under the influence of experimental inhomogeneities, so that the sample is transferred from an initial rest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Andre Luiz P. de Lima , Andrew K. Harter , Michael J. Martin , Anatoly Zlotnik

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is an imaging modality which uses near-infrared light. Although iterative numerical schemes are commonly used for its inverse problem, correct solutions are not obtained unless good initial guesses are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Yu Jiang , Manabu Machida , Norikazu Todoroki

Coherent diffractive imaging is unique as the only route for achieving diffraction-limited spatial resolution in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray regions, limited only by the wavelength of the light. Recently, advances in coherent short…

Since the diffraction behavior of a light field is fully determined by its spatial wavefunction, i.e., its spatial complex amplitude (SCA), full characterization of spatial wavefunction, plays a vital role in modern optics from both the…