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Conformal prediction provides distribution-free coverage guaranties for regression; yet existing methods assume Euclidean output spaces and produce prediction regions that are poorly calibrated when responses lie on Riemannian manifolds. We…

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Integrated photonic technologies are rapidly becoming an important and fundamental milestone for wideband optical telecommunications. Future optical networks have several critical requirements, including low energy consumption, high…

Microscopy and optical imaging are drastically limited by the inhomogeneities encountered by the light while propagating from the object of interest to the detection system. In this context, adaptive optics and wavefront manipulation are…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-23 Diego Di Battista

Perfect imaging has been believed to rely on negative refraction, but here we show that an ordinary positively-refracting optical medium may form perfect images as well. In particular, we establish a mathematical proof that Maxwell's fish…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-30 Ulf Leonhardt

The aim of this research is to reconstruct the 3D X-ray refractive index gradient maps by the proposed vector Radon transform and its inverse, assuming that the small-angle deviation condition is met. Theoretical analyses show that the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Keliang Liao , Qili He , Panyun Li , Liang Luo , Peiping Zhu

New ray-optical elements allow generalized refraction of light rays, but geometry imposes limitations on possible mappings between the positions of an object and its geometric image. Here I study the case of an infinite, planar,…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-25 Johannes Courtial

We have recently started to investigate 2D arrays of confocal lens pairs. Miniaturization of the lens pairs can make the array behave ray-optically like a homogeneous medium. Here we generalize the geometry of the lens pairs. These…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alasdair C. Hamilton , Johannes Courtial

The original carpet cloak [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203901 (2008)] was designed by a numerical method, the quasi-conformal mapping. Therefore its refractive index profile was obtained numerically. In this letter, we propose a new carpet cloak…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-12 Hui Li , Yadong Xu , Qiannan Wu , Huanyang Chen

Under a convexity assumption on the boundary we solve a local inverse problem, namely we show that the geodesic X-ray transform can be inverted locally in a stable manner; one even has a reconstruction formula. We also show that under an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Gunther Uhlmann , András Vasy

In our work we theoretically demonstrate a refractive index mapping to enable optical analogues to celestial mechanics, where is possible to achieve light confinement and trapping by means of a static, and planar, refractive index mapping…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 D. P. San-Roman-Alerigi , A. B. Slimane , T. K. Ng , M. Alsunaidi , B. S. Ooi

We generalize the geometrical model of transformation optics to Rieman-Cartan space with torsion by introducing topological defects in physical space. By relaxing the integrable condition, we show explicitly that the generalized equivalent…

Optical beams and starlight distorted by atmospheric turbulence can be corrected with adaptive optics systems to enable efficient coupling into single-mode fibers. Deformable mirrors, used to flatten the wavefront in astronomical…

The diffractive nature of light has limited optics and photonics to operate at scales much larger than the wavelength of light. The major challenge in scaling-down integrated photonics is how to mold the light flow below diffraction-limit…

Optics · Physics 2007-12-27 Seunghoon Han , Yi Xiong , Dentcho Genov , Zhaowei Liu , Guy Bartal , Xiang Zhang

We have presented a new general function photonic crystals (GFPCs), which refractive index is a function of space position. Based on Fermat principle, we achieve the motion equations of light in one-dimensional general function photonic…

The application of transformation optics to the development of intriguing electromagnetic devices can produce weakly anisotropic or isotropic media with the assistance of quasi-conformal and/or conformal mapping, as opposed to the strongly…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-03 Xiaoyu Zhao , Hong Deng , Xiaoke Gao , Xikui Ma , Tianyu Dong

By investigating wave properties at cloak boundaries, invisibility cloaks with arbitrary shape constructed by general coordinate transformations are confirmed to be perfectly invisible to the external incident wave. The differences between…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wei Yan , Min Yan , Zhichao Ruan , Min Qiu

We demonstrate that a transformation device can be emulated using a gradient-index waveguide. The effective index of the waveguide is spatially varied by tailoring a gradient thickness dielectric waveguide. Based on this technology, we…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Y. Wang , C. Sheng , H. Liu , Y. J. Zheng , C. Zhu , S. M. Wang , S. N. Zhu

We continue the development of a manifestly 4-dimensional, completely covariant, approach to transformation optics in linear dielectric materials begun in a previous paper. This approach, which generalizes the Plebanski based approach, is…

Optics · Physics 2011-04-18 Robert T. Thompson , Steven A. Cummer , Jörg Frauendiener

Reconstructing transparent objects from a set of multi-view images is a challenging task due to the complicated nature and indeterminate behavior of light propagation. Typical methods are primarily tailored to specific scenarios, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Changpu Li , Shuang Wu , Songlin Tang , Guangming Lu , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

We describe the most general homogenous, planar, light-ray-direction-changing sheet that performs one-to-one imaging between object space and image space. This is a non-trivial special case (of the sheet being homogenous) of an earlier…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stephen Oxburgh , Johannes Courtial