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We study the polarization properties of elliptical femtosecond-laser-written waveguides arrays. A new analytical model is presented to explain the asymmetry of the spatial transverse profiles of linearly polarized modes in these waveguides.…

We study imaging with an array of sensors that probes a medium with single frequency electromagnetic waves and records the scattered electric field. The medium is known and homogenous except for some small and penetrable inclusions. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

We consider imaging in a scattering medium where the illumination goes through this medium but there is also an auxiliary, passive receiver array that is near the object to be imaged. Instead of imaging with the source-receiver array on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Josselin Garnier , George Papanicolaou

We consider the propagation of acoustic waves at a given wavenumber in a waveguide which is unbounded in one direction. We explain how to construct penetrable obstacles characterized by a physical coefficient $\rho$ which are invisible in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Antoine Bera , Antoine-Sophie Bonnet-BenDhia , Lucas Chesnel

We consider the problem of wave propagation for a 2-D rectilinear optical waveguide which presents some perturbation. We construct a mathematical framework to study such a problem and prove the existence of a solution for the case of small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Giulio Ciraolo , Rolando Magnanini

The dispersion properties of rectangular metallic waveguides periodically loaded by uniaxial resonant scatterers are studied with help of an analytical theory based on the local field approach, the dipole approximation and the method of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel A. Belov , Constantin R. Simovski

This paper presents an efficient algorithm of high-resolution microwave imaging based on the concept of generalized reflectivity. The contribution made in this paper is two-fold. We introduce the concept of non-parametric generalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Long Gang Wang , Lianlin Li , Tie Jun Cui

This work introduces a method for preprocessing measurements of electrical impedance tomography to considerably reduce the effect uncertainties in the electrode contacts have on the reconstruction quality, without a need to explicitly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Altti Jääskeläinen , Jussi Toivanen , Asko Hänninen , Ville Kolehmainen , Nuutti Hyvönen

We computationally study a subwavelength dielectric grating structure, show that slab waveguide modes can be used to obtain broadband high reflectivity, and analyze how slab waveguide modes influence reflection. A structure showing…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-17 Xuan Cui , Hao Tian , Zhongxiang Zhou

Transformation optics is used to prove that a spherical waveguide filled with an isotropic material with radial refractive index n=1/r has radial polarized modes (i.e. the electric field has only radial component) with the same perfect…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Juan C. Miñano , Pablo Benítez , Juan C. González

We consider the reflection-transmission problem in a waveguide with obstacle. At certain frequencies, for some incident waves, intensity is perfectly transmitted and the reflected field decays exponentially at infinity. In this work, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia , Lucas Chesnel , Vincent Pagneux

Utilizing the underlying physics of evanescent wave amplification by a negative-refractive-index slab, it is shown that evanescent waves with specific spatial frequencies can also be amplified without any reflection simply by two dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mankei Tsang , Demetri Psaltis

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

We designed a high-resolution compact spectrometer based on an evanescently-coupled multimode spiral waveguide. Interference between the modes in the waveguide forms a wavelength-dependent speckle pattern which is used as a fingerprint to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-26 Brandon Redding , Seng Fatt Liew , Yaron Bromberg , Raktim Sarma , Hui Cao

Almost all known image reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography assume that the acoustic waves leave the region of interest after a finite time. This assumption is reasonable if the reflections from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 L. Kunyansky , B. Holman , B. T. Cox

We investigate an extended version of the Bragg reflection waveguide (BRW) with air gaps as one of the layers. This design has the potential of drastically simplifying the epitaxial structure for integrated nonlinear optical elements at the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Benedikt Pressl , Gregor Weihs

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

An end-to-end learning approach is proposed for the joint design of transmitted waveform and detector in a radar system. Detector and transmitted waveform are trained alternately: For a fixed transmitted waveform, the detector is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Wei Jiang , Alexander M. Haimovich , Osvaldo Simeone

Many advances in reflective metasurfaces have been made during the last few years, implementing efficient manipulations of wavefronts, especially for plane waves. Despite numerous solutions that have been developed throughout the years, a…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-22 Hamidreza Taghvaee , Fu Liu , Ana Díaz-Rubio , Sergei Tretyakov

An experimental evidence of subwavelength imaging with a "lens", which is a uniaxial negative permittivity wire medium slab, is reported. The slab is formed by gratings of long thin parallel conducting cylinders. Taking into account the…