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A measure of the degree of polarization for the three-dimensional polarization matrix (coherence matrix) of an electromagnetic field is proposed, based on Rayleigh scattering. The degree of polarization, due to dipole scattering of the…

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An optimization for multilayered nanotubes that minimizes the scattering efficiency for a given polarization is derived. The cylindrical nanocavities have a radially periodic distribution, and the marginal layers that play a crucial role…

The extended boundary condition method can be formulated to study plane-wave scattering by an ellipsoid composed of an orthorhombic dielectric-magnetic material whose relative permittivity dyadic is a scalar multiple of its relative…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-22 H. M. Alkhoori , A. Lakhtakia , J. K. Breakall , C. F. Bohren

Metamaterial cloaking has been proposed and studied in recent years following several interesting approaches. One of them, the scattering-cancellation technique, or plasmonic cloaking, exploits the plasmonic effects of suitably designed…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Andrea Alu , David Rainwater , Aaron Kerkhoff

An experimental demonstration of directivities exceeding the fundamental Kildal limit, a phenomenon called superdirectivity, is provided for spherical high-index dielectric antennas with an electric dipole excitation. A directivity factor…

Optical manipulation of Mie-resonant dielectric nanoparticles is strongly influenced by their enhanced scattering and multipolar response, which fundamentally modifiesthe balance of optical forces. In this work, we study the optical forces…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Semyon Borodulin , Natalia Kostina , Mihail Petrov

We consider a polyhedron with zero classical resistance, i.e., a polyhedron invisible to an observer viewing only the paths of geometrical optics rays. The corresponding problem of scattering of plane waves by the polyhedron is studied. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 E. Lakshtanov , B. D. Sleeman , B. Vainberg

We revisit the total scatterings (in terms of extinction, scattering and absorption cross sections) by arbitrary clusters of nonmagnetic particles that support optically-induced magnetic responses. Our reexamination is conducted from the…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-23 Qingdong Yang , Weijin Chen , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

Consider the acoustic wave equation with unknown, not necessarily smooth, wave speed $c$. We propose and study an iterative control procedure that erases the history of a wave field up to a given depth in a medium, without any knowledge of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Peter Caday , Maarten V. de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson , Gunther Uhlmann

We present a theory for the cloaking of arbitrarily-shaped objects and demonstrate electromagnetic scattering-cancellation through designed homogeneous coatings. First, in the small-particle limit, we expand the dipole moment of a coated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-26 Carlo Forestiere , Luca Dal Negro , Giovanni Miano

Based on an analytic approach, we present a theoretical review on the absorption, scattering, and extinction of both dipole scatterers and regular arrays composed of such scatterers i.e., metasurfaces. Besides offering a tutorial by…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-06 Rasoul Alaee , Mohammad Albooyeh , Carsten Rockstuhl

We describe a method to control the directional scattering of a high index dielectric nanosphere, which utilizes the unique focusing properties of an azimuthally polarized phase vortex and a radially polarized beam to independently excite…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-27 Lei Wei , Nandini Bhattacharya , H. Paul Urbach

In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrated photothermally-induced nonlinearities of both forward and backward scattering intensities from quasi-perfect absorbing silicon-based metasurface. The metasurface is efficiently…

Electromagnetic wave scattering from planar dielectric films deposited on one-dimensional, randomly rough, perfectly conducting substrates is studied by numerical simulations for both p- and s-polarization. The reduced Rayleigh equation,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-25 I. Simonsen , A. A. Maradudin

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem to recover a compactly supported Schr{\"o}dinger potential given the differential scattering cross section, i.e. the modulus, but not the phase of the scattering amplitude. To compensate for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Alexey Agaltsov , Thorsten Hohage , Roman Novikov

We achieve efficient shaping of superscattering by radially anisotropic nanowires relying on resonant multipolar interferences. It is shown that the radial anisotropy of refractive index can be employed to resonantly overlap electric and…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-13 Wei Liu

We solve inverse scattering problem for Schr\"odinger operators with compactly supported potentials on the half line. We discretize S-matrix: we take the value of the S-matrix on some infinite sequence of positive real numbers. Using this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Evgeny L. Korotyaev

In the present article the classical problem of electromagnetic scattering by a single homogeneous sphere is revisited. Main focus is the study of the scattering behavior as a function of the material contrast and the size parameters for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Dimitrios C. Tzarouchis , Pasi Ylä-Oijala , Ari Sihvola

The scattering cancellation technique is a powerful tool to reduce the scattered field from electrically small objects in a specific frequency window. The technique relies on covering the object of interest with a shell that scatters light…

We formulate and validate a finite element approach to the propagation of a slowly decaying electromagnetic wave, called surface plasmon-polariton, excited along a conducting sheet, e.g., a single-layer graphene sheet, by an electric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Matthias Maier , Dionisios Margetis , Mitchell Luskin