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The general method to obtain solutions of the Maxwellian equations from scalar representatives is developed and applied to the diffraction of electromagnetic waves. Kirchhoff's integral is modified to provide explicit expressions for these…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ulrich Brosa

The scattering of quasiperiodic waves for a two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with a constant refractive index perturbed by a function which is periodic in one direction and of finite support in the other is considered. The scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. de la Paz Méndez

We present a new method for the analysis of electromagnetic scattering from homogeneous penetrable bodies. Our approach is based on a reformulation of the governing Maxwell equations in terms of two uncoupled vector Helmholtz systems: one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Felipe Vico , Leslie Greengard , Miguel Ferrando

This paper presents an integral formulation for Helmholtz problems with mixed boundary conditions. Unlike most integral equation techniques for mixed boundary value problems, the proposed method uses a global boundary charge density. As a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Adrianna Gillman

Solving the wave equation is one of the most (if not the most) fundamental problems we face as we try to illuminate the Earth using recorded seismic data. The Helmholtz equation provides wavefield solutions that are dimensionally reduced,…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tariq Alkhalifah , Chao Song , Umair bin Waheed , Qi Hao

We consider the solution of a scalar Helmholtz equation where the potential (or index) takes two positive values, one inside a disk of radius $\epsilon$ and another one outside. We derive sharp estimates of the size of the scattered field…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Yves Capdeboscq

A summation framework is developed that enhances Karr's difference field approach. It covers not only indefinite nested sums and products in terms of transcendental extensions, but it can treat, e.g., nested products defined over roots of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Carsten Schneider

Kirchhoff's scalar diffraction theory is applied throughout photon and electron optics. It is based on the stationary electromagnetic or Schr\"odinger wave equation, and is useful in describing interference phenomena for both light and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Ruben Van Boxem , Bart Partoens , Jo Verbeeck

Wave fields obeying the 2D Helmholtz equation on branched surfaces (Sommerfeld surfaces) are studied. Such surfaces appear naturally as a result of applying the reflection method to diffraction problems with straight scatterers bearing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Raphael C. Assier , Andrey V. Shanin

This paper is concerned with a numerical method for a 3D coefficient inverse problem with phaseless scattering data. These are multi-frequency data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. Our numerical procedure consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

We prove a limiting absorption principle for a generalized Helmholtz equation on an exterior domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions \begin{equation*} (L+\lambda)v=f, \qquad \lambda\in \mathbb{R} \end{equation*} under a Sommerfeld…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Federico Cacciafesta , Piero D'Ancona , Renato Lucà

In this paper, we propose and analyze an additive domain decomposition method (DDM) for solving the high-frequency Helmholtz equation with the Sommerfeld radiation condition. In the proposed method, the computational domain is partitioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Wei Leng , Lili Ju

In this paper, new boundary differential equations for the two-dimensional exterior scattering problem have been derived. It has been shown that the Helmholtz equation can be reduced to an inhomogeneous Bessel's equation in a body-fitted…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Wen Geyi

Frequency domain spectroscopy allows an experimenter to establish optical properties of solids in a wide frequency band including the technically challenging 10 THz region, and in other bands enables metrological comparison between…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-21 Steven Chick , Ben Murdin , Guy Matmon , Mira Naftaly

Complex numbers are basic. An inconsistency would question Wigner's unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. A vehicle to study this question is Kirchoff's scalar diffraction theory. In the paper, an inconsistency in complex phase angle…

General Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Han Geurdes

We consider the Sommerfeld problem of diffraction by an opaque half-plane with a real wavenumber interpreting it as the limiting case, as time tends to infinity, of the corresponding time-dependent diffraction problem. We prove that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 A. Merzon , P. Zhevandrov , J. E. De la Paz Méndez , T. J. Villalba Vega

Discrete sampling theorem is formulated that refers to discrete signals specified by a finite number of their samples and band-limited in a domain of a certain orthogonal transform. Conditions of the recoverability of such signals from…

Optics · Physics 2009-02-24 L. Yaroslavsky

We derive spectral sum rules for inverse powers of the eigenvalues of the Helmholtz equation on a $d$-sphere in the presence of an arbitrary density. By adopting a rigorous renormalization scheme, we remove the divergent contributions of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Paolo Amore

The chapter contains a detailed presentation of the surface integral theory for modelling light diffraction by surface-relief diffraction gratings having a one-dimensional periodicity. Several different approaches are presented, leading…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-03 Daniel Maystre , Evgeny Popov

The goal of this paper is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from complex-valued scattered wave field by solving a 3D coefficient inverse problem for the Helmholtz equation at multi-frequencies. The data are generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen , Hui Liu