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There has been increasing interest in making the photonic devices more and more compact in the integrated photonics industry, and one of the important questions for manufacturers and design engineers is how to quantify the effect of the…

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The light propagation through a stack of two media with different refractive indices, which are aligned according to different quasiperiodic sequences determined by metallic means, is studied using the transfer matrix method. The focus lies…

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An asymptotic analysis of wave propagation in randomly perturbed waveguides is carried out in order to identify the effective Markovian dynamics of the guided mode powers. The main result consists in a quantification of the fluctuations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Josselin Garnier

First, we make a revision of the up-to-date Passive Scalar Fields properties: also, the refractive index is among them. Afterwards, we formulated the properties that make the family of `isotropic' fractional Brownian motion (with parameter…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario G. Perez

Highly overmoded iris-line structures carry desirable features for the efficient transportation of THz radiation over long distances. Previous studies have analyzed the iris line, modeled approximately as a long open-resonator structure…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Adham Naji , Gennady Stupakov

Propagation and tunneling of light through photonic barriers formed by thin dielectric films with continuous curvilinear distributions of dielectric susceptibility across the film, are considered. Giant heterogeneity-induced dispersion of…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexandr B. Shvartsburg , Guillaume Petite

Breaking the reciprocity of light propagation in photonic integrated circuits (PIC) - especially in the CMOS-compatible silicon-on-insulator platform - is a topic of intense research. However, a practical solution for monolithic integrating…

A numerical technique is described that can efficiently compute solutions in interface problems. These are problems with data, such as the coefficients of differential equations, discontinuous or even singular across one or more interfaces.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Theodoros P. Horikis

The Helmholtz equation can be written as coupled equations for the amplitude and phase. By considering spatial phase distributions corresponding to reflectionless wave propagation in the plane and solving for the amplitude in terms of this…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Chris King , Simon Horsley , Thomas Philbin

Nonreciprocal optical devices have broad applications in light manipulations for communications and sensing. Non-magnetic mechanisms of optical nonreciprocity are highly desired for high-frequency on-chip applications. Here, we investigate…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-19 Zheng Yang , Yuqiong Cheng , Neng Wang , Yuntian Chen , Shubo Wang

Two different frameworks are developed to model the wave field generated by a transducer and propagating through one or more interfaces, and a Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration scheme is used to numerically evaluate their results. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 André Lello de Almeida , Melody Png , Bo Lan

We ask the question 'what happens to Bloch waves in gratings synthetically moving at near the speed of light?'. First we define a constant refractive index (CRI) model in which Bloch waves remain well defined as they break the light…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-05 J. B. Pendry , P. A. Huidobro , M. G. Silveirinha , E. Galiffi

We study long range propagation of electromagnetic waves in random waveguides with rectangular cross-section and perfectly conducting boundaries. The waveguide is filled with an isotropic linear dielectric material, with randomly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea

We investigate the propagation of Gaussian beams through optical waveguide lattices characterized by correlated non-Hermitian disorder. In the framework of coupled mode theory, we demonstrate how the imaginary part of the refractive index…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-16 A. F. Tzortzakakis , K. G. Makris , S. Rotter , E. N. Economou

This chapter is a pedagogical review of methods and results for studying wave propagation in one-dimensional complex structures. We describe and compare the tight-binding, scattering matrix, transfer matrix and Riccati formalisms. We…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-02 Eric Akkermans , Gerald Dunne , Eli Levy

This paper studies guided transverse scalar modes propagating through helically coiled waveguides. Modeling the modes as solutions of the Helmholtz equation within the three-dimensional (3D) waveguide geometry, a propagation ansatz…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-19 Jay Gopalakrishnan , Michael Neunteufel

Motivated by the study and simulation of long, coiled optical fibers we consider in this article a simplified model that is prevalent in the engineering community. Mathematically, the problem is specified as follows: Time-harmonic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Leszek Demkowicz , Martin Halla , Jens Markus Melenk

The optical medium analogy of a given spacetime was developed decades ago and has since then been widely applied to different gravitational contexts. Here we consider the case of a colliding gravitational wave spacetime, generalizing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Maria Haney

We have theoretically proposed a highly compact refractive-index sensor consisted of edge-cavity and line-defect waveguide in two-dimensional photonic crystal. The sensing object is completely outside of the single enclosed surface of the…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-22 Ma Luo , Kaichan Zhong , Jieli Luo

We have recently developed the mass-polariton (MP) theory of light to describe the light propagation in transparent bulk materials [Phys. Rev. A 95, 063850 (2017)]. The MP theory is general as it is based on the covariance principle and the…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-14 Mikko Partanen , Jukka Tulkki