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We present a technique capable of producing subwavelength focal spots in the far-field of the source in planar non-resonant structures. The approach combines the diffraction gratings that generate the high-wavevector-number modes and planar…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , Viktor A. Podolskiy

Compact objects with a light sphere such as black holes and wormholes can reflect light rays like a mirror. This gravitational lensing phenomenon is called retrolensing and it is an interesting tool to survey dark and compact objects with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-24 Naoki Tsukamoto , Yungui Gong

We address efficient and structure-aware 3D scene representation from images. Nerflets are our key contribution -- a set of local neural radiance fields that together represent a scene. Each nerflet maintains its own spatial position,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xiaoshuai Zhang , Abhijit Kundu , Thomas Funkhouser , Leonidas Guibas , Hao Su , Kyle Genova

The question is considered about possibility of overcoming diffraction limit at device, named superlens. This device is a flat slab, executed from material with index of refraction n,equal n=-1. It is shown, what this device really can…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Veselago

A brief overview of the current state of the problem of electromagnetic field singularities arising from the refraction and scattering of light by material objects is given. The discussion begins with caustics arising from ray tracing in…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-11 M. I. Tribelsky , B. S. Luk'yanchuk

Motivated by non-destructive testing of optical fiber, we consider the problem of determining the index of refraction of a two-dimensional medium from magnitude of the total field resulting from known incident plane waves at a fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Yat Tin Chow , Fadil Santosa , Gunther Uhlmann

We propose a general theoretical scheme for the investigation of light emitted from nano- and micrometric structures of arbitrary shape and composition. More specifically, the proposed fully three-dimensional approach allows to derive the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Pieruccini , S. Savasta , R. Girlanda , R. Iotti , F. Rossi

The inverse reflector problem aims to design a freeform reflecting surface that can direct the light from a specified source to produce the desired illumination in the target area, which is significant in the field of geometrical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Gang Bao , Yixuan Zhang

A high-accuracy solution of the diffraction problem has become necessary for the treatment of certain special questions of statistical physics. This article reports the creation of a computer program that serves as an instrumental method of…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-30 Vladimir V. Savukov , Igor V. Golubenko

A rigorous mathematical model and an efficient computational method are proposed to solving the inverse elastic surface scattering problem which arises from the near-field imaging of periodic structures. We demonstrate how an enhanced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Huaian Diao , Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

A light field records numerous light rays from a real-world scene. However, capturing a dense light field by existing devices is a time-consuming process. Besides, reconstructing a large amount of light rays equivalent to multiple light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Mantang Guo , Hao Zhu , Guoqing Zhou , Qing Wang

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have revolutionized the field of novel view synthesis, demonstrating remarkable performance. However, the modeling and rendering of reflective objects remain challenging problems. Recent methods have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Georgios Kouros , Minye Wu , Shubham Shrivastava , Sushruth Nagesh , Punarjay Chakravarty , Tinne Tuytelaars

This paper is concerned with time domain forward scattering and inverse scattering problems with a single moving point source as the emitter. Approximate solutions are provided for the forward scattering problem with a moving emitter.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Yu Sun , Bo Chen , Peng Gao , Qiuyi Li , Yao Sun

We consider the inverse source problem of a fixed wavenumber: study properties of an acoustic source based on a single far- or near-field measurement. We show that nonradiating sources having a convex or non-convex corner or edge on their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Eemeli Blåsten

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau

We propose to tackle the multiview photometric stereo problem using an extension of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), conditioned on light source direction. The geometric part of our neural representation predicts surface normal direction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Meghna Asthana , William A. P. Smith , Patrik Huber

For over a century diffraction theory has been thought to limit the resolution of focusing and imaging in the optical domain. The size of the smallest spot achievable is inversely proportional to the range of spatial wavevectors available.…

Optics · Physics 2011-01-11 Michael Mazilu , Joerg Baumgartl , Kishan Dholakia

Aperture based scanning near field optical microscopes are important instruments to study light at the nanoscale and to understand the optical functionality of photonic nanostructures. In general, a detected image is affected by both, the…

Physics-based inverse rendering enables joint optimization of shape, material, and lighting based on captured 2D images. To ensure accurate reconstruction, using a light model that closely resembles the captured environment is essential.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jingwang Ling , Ruihan Yu , Feng Xu , Chun Du , Shuang Zhao

We present an inverse method for transforming a given parallel light emittance to two light distributions at different parallel target planes using two freeform reflectors. The reflectors control both the spatial and directional target…