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In the field of transformation optics, metamaterials mimic the effect of coordinate transformations on electromagnetic waves, creating the illusion that the waves are propagating through a virtual space. Transforming space by appropriately…

Optics · Physics 2009-08-18 Yun Gui Ma , C. K. Ong , Tomas Tyc , Ulf Leonhardt

In this paper, direct and inverse problems for a space fractional advection dispersion equation on a finite domain are studied. The inverse problem consists in determining the source term from a final observation. We first drive the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Abeer Aldoghaither , Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati , Da-Yan Liu

This paper is dedicated to addressing the simultaneous inversion problem involving the initial value and space-dependent source term in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation. Firstly, we establish the uniqueness of the inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yun Zhang , Xiaoli Feng , Xiongbin Yan

Light propagation through a normal medium is determined not only by the real part of the refractive index but also by its imaginary part, which represents optical gain and loss. Therefore, two media with different gain and loss landscapes…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-21 Jose Hernandez Rivero , Li Ge

This article is concerned with the inverse problem on determining the temporal component of the source term in a coupled system of time-fractional diffusion equations by single point observation. Under a non-degeneracy condition on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Mohamed BenSalah , Yikan Liu

This paper is concerned with the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem for anisotropic media. We use the interior resonant modes to develop an inverse scattering scheme for imaging the scatterer. The whole procedure consists of three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Youzi He , Hongjie Li , Hongyu Liu , Xianchao Wang

Time reversal mirrors work perfectly only for lossless wave propagation. Here, the performance of time-reversal mirrors is quantitatively defined, and the adverse effect of dissipation on their performance is investigated. An application of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-02 Biniyam Tesfaye Taddese , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

Materials with unusual optical properties are central to advanced control of light. Yet, in nature, such materials may be exceedingly rare and often difficult to obtain. To overcome this limitation, here we introduce the concept of temporal…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Grigorii Ptitcyn , Diego M. Solís , M. S. Mirmoosa , Nader Engheta

We present a general framework to study uniqueness, stability and reconstruction for infinite-dimensional inverse problems when only a finite-dimensional approximation of the measurements is available. For a large class of inverse problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Giovanni S. Alberti , Matteo Santacesaria

Inverse rendering, the process of inferring scene properties from images, is a challenging inverse problem. The task is ill-posed, as many different scene configurations can give rise to the same image. Most existing solutions incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Marc Habermann , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Thomas Leimkühler , Christian Theobalt

In this paper we study the linearized inverse problem associated with imaging of reflection seismic data. We introduce an inverse scattering transform derived from reverse-time migration (RTM). In the process, the explicit evaluation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-24 Tim J. P. M. Op 't Root , Christiaan C. Stolk , Maarten V. de Hoop

We study the problem of a temporal discontinuity in the permittivity of an unbounded medium with Lorentzian dispersion. More specifically, we tackle the situation in which a monochromatic plane wave forward-travelling in a (generally lossy)…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Diego M. Solís , Raphael Kastner , Nader Engheta

This study formulates a volumetric inverse-design methodology to generate a pair of complementary focusing metalenses for terahertz imaging: the two lenses exhibit equal and opposite shifts in focal length with frequency. An asymmetry…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-18 Mo Chen , Ka Fai Chan , Alec M. Hammond , Chi Hou Chan , Steven G. Johnson

Pseudoscopic (inverted depth) images that keep a continuous parallax were shown to be possible by use of a double diffraction process intermediated by a slit. One diffraction grating directing light to the slit acts as a wavelength encoder…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose J. Lunazzi , Noemi I. Rivera

By co-designing a meta-optical front end in conjunction with an image-processing back end, we demonstrate noise sensitivity and compactness substantially superior to either an optics-only or a computation-only approach, illustrated by two…

Explicit and compact expressions describing the reflection and the transmission of a Gaussian beam by anisotropic parallel plates are given. Multiple reflections inside the plate are taken into account as well as arbitrary optical axis…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabian Zomer

We consider a time-independent variable coefficients fractional porous medium equation and formulate an associated inverse problem. We determine both the conductivity and the absorption coefficient from exterior partial measurements of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Li Li

A class of photoacoustic acquisition geometries in n-space is considered such that the spherical mean transform admits an exact filtered back projection reconstruction formula. The reconstruction is interpreted as a time reversion mirror…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Victor Palamodov

Dichroic tomography is a 3D imaging technique in which the polarization of the incident beam is used to induce contrast due to the magnetization or orientation of a sample. The aim is to reconstruct not only the optical density but the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-11 Matthew A. Marcus

Motivated by entropic optimal transport, time reversal of diffusion processes is revisited. An integration by parts formula is derived for the carr\'e du champ of a Markov process in an abstract space. It leads to a time reversal formula…

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