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We theoretically formulate and experimentally demonstrate the design of metagratings (MGs) composed of periodic rectangular grooves in a metallic medium, intended for perfect anomalous reflection. Using mode matching, a semianalytical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Oshri Rabinovich , Ariel Epstein

Electromagnetic invisibility, defined as reflectionless transmission with zero phase delay, imposes strict constraints on metasurface designs that go beyond conventional reflection suppression based on the Kerker effect. This condition can…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-23 Mustafa Yücel , Karim Achouri

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication has emerged as a novel concept for customizing future wireless environments in a cost- and energy-efficient way. However, due to double path loss, existing fully passive RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar , Miaowen Wen , Ibrahim Altunbas

Near perfect infrared light absorption at multi-spectral wavelengths has been experimentally demonstrated by using multiplexed metal square plasmon resonance structures. Optical power absorption over 95% has been observed in dual-band…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Boyang Zhang , Joshua Hendrickson , Junpeng Guo

This paper proposes Omnidirectional Representations from Transformers (OmniNet). In OmniNet, instead of maintaining a strictly horizontal receptive field, each token is allowed to attend to all tokens in the entire network. This process can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yi Tay , Mostafa Dehghani , Vamsi Aribandi , Jai Gupta , Philip Pham , Zhen Qin , Dara Bahri , Da-Cheng Juan , Donald Metzler

We investigate the storage and retrieval of electromagnetic waves using a nonlinear metamaterial, analogous to the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) observed in atomic systems. We experimentally demonstrate the storage of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Toshihiro Nakanishi , Masao Kitano

Based on both analytical dipole model analyses and numerical simulations, we propose a concept of coherent perfect nanoabsorbers (CPNAs) for divergent beams. This concept makes use of the properties of a slab with negative refraction and…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-09 Vasily Klimov , Shulin Sun , Guang-Yu Guo

Artificial magnetic conductors (AMCs) mimic the idealized boundary condition of a perfect magnetic conductor (PMC), which reflects electromagnetic waves with a preserved electric field and inverted magnetic field. Despite their usefulness,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Oscar Céspedes Vicente , Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

We propose an effective route to fully control the phase of plane waves reflected from electrically (optically) thin sheets. This becomes possible using engineered artificial full-reflection layers (metamirrors) as arrays of electrically…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-09 Y. Ra'di , V. S. Asadchy , S. A. Tretyakov

High-order perfect absorption of coherent input has recently attracted significant attention due to its broadband absorption capacity. However, the realization of a high-order perfect absorber relies on the exceptional point (EP) to…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-01 Huisheng Xu , Luojia Wang , Luqi Yuan , Liang Jin

Reflectionless potentials following the prescription of Kay and Moses allow for total transmission of incoming waves of any kinetic energy. The optical analogue of such potentials occur as dielectric stratified media that can offer null…

We analyse wave propagation in two-dimensional bianisotropic media with the Finite Element Method (FEM). We start from the Maxwell-Tellegen's equations in bianisotropic media, and derive some system of coupled Partial Difference Equations…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yan Liu , Boris Gralak , Sebastien Guenneau

A broad-band reflectionless channel which supports unidirectional wave propagation originating from the interplay between gyrotropic elements and symmetrically placed gain and loss constituents is proposed. Interchange of the active…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-06 J. M. Lee , Z. Lin , H. Ramezani , F. M. Ellis , V. Kovanis , I. Vitebskiy , T. Kottos

A new mechanism of Bragg reflection is identified, one that, remarkably, occurs in a uniform medium and relies on resonant tuning of the medium's parameters. Due to uniformity, reflection ensues over a broad wavelength range, much like a…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-22 Martin W. McCall , Stefanos Fr. Koufidis

Conjugate metamaterials, in which the permittivity and the permeability are complex conjugates of each other, possess the elements of loss and gain simultaneously. By employing a conjugate metamaterial with a purely imaginary form, we…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yangyang Fu , Yanyan Cao , Steven A. Cummer , Yadong Xu , Huanyang Chen

It is known that the two eigen plane waves incident to the generalized soft-and-hard/DB (GSHDB) boundary are reflected as from the PEC or PMC boundary, i.e., with reflection coefficients $-1$ or $+1$, for any angle of incidence. The present…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Ismo V. Lindell , Ari Sihvola

A nearly omni-directional THz absorber for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarizations is proposed. Through the excitation of magnetic polariton in a metal-dielectric layer, the incident light is perfectly…

Optics · Physics 2009-06-12 Yuqian Ye , Yi Jin , Sailing He

We develop a simple treatment of a metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA) based on grating theory. We analytically prove that the condition of MPA requires the existence of two currents, which are nearly out of phase and have almost identical…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-29 Yong Zeng , Hou-Tong Chen , Diego A. R. Dalvit

Physical insight into plasma evolution in the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) limit can be revealed by decomposing the evolution according to the characteristic modes of the system. In this paper we explore aspects of the eigenenergy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Abbas Raboonik , David Pontin , Lucas Tarr

When sources of energy gain and loss are introduced to a wave-scattering system, the underlying mathematical formulation will be non-Hermitian. This paves the way for the existence of exceptional points, where eigenmodes are linearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Habib Ammari , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Hyundae Lee , Sanghyeon Yu