English
Related papers

Related papers: Modelling High-Frequency Backscattering from a Mes…

200 papers

The transfer matrix of scattering theory in one dimension can be expressed in terms of the time-evolution operator for an effective non-unitary quantum system. In particular, it admits a Dyson series expansion which turns out to facilitate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

We propose the design and measurement of an acoustic metasurface retroreflector that works at three discrete incident angles. An impedance model is developed such that for acoustic waves impinging at -60 degrees, the reflected wave is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Chen Shen , Ana Díaz-Rubio , Junfei Li , Steven A. Cummer

This paper concerns the inverse source scattering problems of recovering random sources for acoustic and elastic waves. The underlying sources are assumed to be random functions driven by an additive white noise. The inversion process aims…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Zhipeng Yang , Yue Zhao

Multiple scattering theory is applied to the study of clusters of point-like scatterers attached to a thin elastic plate and arranged in quasi-periodic distributions. Two type of structures are specifically considered: the twisted bilayer…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Marc Martí-Sabaté , Sébastien Guenneau , Dani Torrent

We present a simple, frequency domain, preprocessing step to Kirchhoff migration that allows the method to image scatterers when the wave field phase information is lost at the receivers, and only intensities are measured. The resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Patrick Bardsley , Fernando Guevara Vasquez

In this paper we consider scattering resonance computations in optics when the resonators consist of frequency dependent and lossy materials, such as metals at optical frequencies. The proposed computational approach combines a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Juan C. Araujo-Cabarcas , Carmen Campos , Christian Engström , Jose E. Roman

Motivated by applications to acoustic imaging, the present work establishes a framework to analyze scattering for the one-dimensional wave, Helmholtz, Schr\"odinger and Riccati equations that allows for coefficients which are more singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Peter C. Gibson

We consider frequency-domain acoustic scattering at a homogeneous star-shaped penetrable obstacle, whose shape is uncertain and modelled via a radial spectral parameterization with random coefficients. Using recent results on the stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Ralf Hiptmair , Christoph Schwab , Euan A. Spence

A linear scattering problem for which incoming and outgoing waves are restricted to a finite number of radiation channels can be precisely described by a frequency-dependent scattering matrix. The entries of the scattering matrix, as…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Hongyao Wu , Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

In a frequency range where a microwave resonator simulates a chaotic quantum billiard, we have measured moduli and phases of reflection and transmission amplitudes in the regimes of both isolated and of weakly overlapping resonances and for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. Dietz , T. Friedrich , H. L. Harney , M. Miski-Oglu , A. Richter , F. Schaefer , H. A. Weidenmueller

This work presents theoretical and numerical models for the backscattering of two-dimensional Rayleigh waves by an elastic inclusion, with the host material being isotropic and the inclusion having arbitrary shape and crystallographic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Shan Li , Ming Huang , Yongfeng Song , Bo Lan , Xiongbing Li

Periodic surface structures are nowadays standard building blocks of optical devices. If such structures are illuminated by aperiodic time-harmonic incident waves as, e.g., Gaussian beams, the resulting surface scattering problem must be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Armin Lechleiter , Ruming Zhang

The scattering of quasiperiodic waves for a two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with a constant refractive index perturbed by a function which is periodic in one direction and of finite support in the other is considered. The scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. de la Paz Méndez

The resonant mode approximation of the scattering matrix is considered for calculating the optical properties of multilayered periodic structures within the formalism of the Fourier-modal method for two diffraction thresholds in close…

In this study, we investigate the feasibility of designing reconfigurable transmitting metasurfaces through the use of Drude-like scatterers with purely electric response. Theoretical and numerical analyses are provided to demonstrate that…

This paper addresses the inverse obstacle scattering problem of simultaneously reconstructing the obstacle geometry and boundary conditions from multi-frequency near-field backscattering data. We first establish rigorous high-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu

A butterfly-based fast direct integral equation solver for analyzing high-frequency scattering from two-dimensional objects is presented. The solver leverages a randomized butterfly scheme to compress blocks corresponding to near- and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Yang Liu , Han Guo , Eric Michielssen

An accurate and efficient numerical simulation approach to electromagnetic wave scattering from two-dimensional, randomly rough, penetrable surfaces is presented. The use of the M\"uller equations and an impedance boundary condition for a…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-03 Ingve Simonsen , Alexei A. Maradudin , Tamara A. Leskova

In this paper, we consider acoustic or electromagnetic scattering in two dimensions from an infinite three-layer medium with thousands of wavelength-size dielectric particles embedded in the middle layer. Such geometries are typical of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Jun Lai , Motoki Kobayashi , Leslie Greengard

Characterizing resonant scatterers is challenging because their poles and zeros usually lie away from the real-frequency axis, whereas most measurements sample only real frequencies and infer off-axis behavior from fitted models. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-16 Alex Krasnok , Denis Seletskiy