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For oblique anti-plane shear waves in periodic layered elastic composites, it is shown that negative energy refraction is accompanied by positive phase-velocity refraction and positive energy refraction is accompanied by negative…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-17 Sia Nemat-Nasser

A method is proposed for the analysis of the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a homogeneous slab of a medium with Drude-Lorentz dispersion behavior, and excited by a causal sinusoidal source. An expression of the time dependent…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-13 Mohamed Ismail , Boris Gralak

Realization of non-reciprocal devices, such as isolators and circulators, is of fundamental importance in microwave and photonic communication systems. This can be achieved by breaking time-reversal symmetry in the system or exploiting…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Junfei Li , Chen Shen , Yangbo Xie , Steven A. Cummer

An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

In this study, the in-plane Bloch wave propagation and bandgaps in a finitely stretched square lattice were investigated numerically and theoretically. To be specific, the elastic band diagram was calculated for an infinite periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Shiheng Zhao , Tao Feng Han Zhang , Yang Gao , Zheng Chang

The interaction between waves and evolving media challenges traditional conservation laws. We experimentally investigate the behavior of elastic wave packets crossing a moving interface that separates two media with distinct propagation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Alexandre Delory , Claire Prada , Maxime Lanoy , Antonin Eddi , Mathias Fink , Fabrice Lemoult

Diffraction-free optical beams propagate freely without change in shape and scale. Monochromatic beams that avoid diffractive spreading require two-dimensional transverse profiles, and there are no corresponding solutions for profiles…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-02 H. Esat Kondakci , Ayman F. Abouraddy

We study the properties of mode-mode interactions for waves propagating in nonlinear disordered one-dimensional systems. We focus on i) the localization volume of a mode which defines the number of interacting partner modes, ii) the overlap…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-19 D. O. Krimer , S. Flach

Fully describing light propagation in a rotating, anisotropic medium with thermal nonlinearity requires modeling the interplay between nonlinear refraction, birefringence, and the nonlinear group index. Incorporating these factors into a…

In contrary to elastic media, it is easy to attain one-way coupling feature among electrical elements, which enables unidirectional transmission of electrical wave. In this paper, we explore and exploit the interaction of a piezoelectric…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Yisheng Zheng , Junxian Zhang , Yegao Qu , Guang Meng

We study the nonlinear wave dynamics of one-dimensional chains of polycatenated rings. These interlocked structures support amplitude-dependent nonlinear wave propagation driven by tensile activation and internal structural flexibility,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Xiaoxiao Xiong , Reo Yanagi , Tingtao Zhou , Chiara Daraio

The dynamics of two pairs of counter-propagating waves in two-component media is considered within the framework of two generally nonintegrable coupled Sine-Gordon equations. We consider the dynamics of weakly nonlinear wave packets, and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Griffiths , R. H. J. Grimshaw , K. R. Khusnutdinova

A simple invisible structure made of two anisotropic homogeneous layers is analyzed theoretically in temporal regime. The frequency dispersion is introduced and analytic expression of the transient part of the field is derived for large…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-20 B. Gralak , G. Arismendi , B. Avril , A. Diatta , S. Guenneau

Nonreciprocal plasmonics enables one-way light propagation at the nanoscale and it is an essential building block for photonics applications. Here, we explore intrinsic nonreciprocity in bulk plasmon propagation based on underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Debasis Dutta , Atasi Chakraborty , Amit Agarwal

A simple and general formalism for mode coupling by a spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal perturbation in dispersive materials is developed. This formalism can be used for studying various linear and non-linear optical interactions…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Brenda Dana , Lilya Lobachinsky , Alon Bahabad

Bloch wavefunctions are used to derive dispersion relations for water wave propagation in the presence of an infinite array of periodically arranged surface scatterers. For one dimensional periodicity (stripes), band gaps for wavevectors in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Chou

Resonant scattering of plane waves by a periodic slab under conditions close to those that support a guided mode is accompanied by sharp transmission anomalies. For two-dimensional structures, we establish sufficient conditions, involving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 Stephen P. Shipman , Hairui Tu

We consider a semi-infinite spatially dispersive dielectric with unequal transverse and longitudinal susceptibilities. The effect of the boundary is characterized by arbitrary reflection coefficients for polarization waves in the material…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-09 R. J. Churchill , T. G. Philbin

Electromagnetic waves in a system with a space and time dependent boundary experience both diffraction and Doppler-like frequency conversion. In order to analyse such situations, conventional methods call for either the eigenmodes or the…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-14 Daigo Oue , Kun Ding , J. B. Pendry

We study scattering of a periodic wave in a string on two lumped oscillators attached to it. The equations can be represented as a driven (by the incident wave) dissipative (due to radiation losses) system of delay differential equations of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-30 Stefano Lepri , Arkady Pikovsky