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The point spread function (PSF) of a translation invariant imaging system is its impulse response, which cannot always be measured directly. This is the case in high energy X-ray radiography, and it must be estimated from images of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Kevin T. Joyce , Johnathan M. Bardsley , Aaron Luttman

Extremely anisotropic metal-dielectric multilayer metamaterials are designed to have the effective permittivity tensor of a transverse component (parallel to the interfaces of the multilayer) with zero real part and a longitudinal component…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Lei Sun , Xiaodong Yang , Wei Wang , Jie Gao

We study two-dimensional wave propagation in materials whose properties vary periodically in one direction only. High order homogenization is carried out to derive a dispersive effective medium approximation. One-dimensional materials with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Manuel Quezada de Luna , David I. Ketcheson

In our recent work [AIP Adv. 11, 095006], we presented an efficient numerical method to compute dispersions and spatial mode profiles of spin waves propagating in waveguides with translationally invariant equilibrium magnetization. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Lukas Körber , Alexander Hempel , Andreas Otto , Rodolfo Gallardo , Yves Henry , Jürgen Lindner , Attila Kákay

Alfv\'en waves propagate in electrically conducting fluids in the presence of a magnetic field. Their reflection properties depend on the ratio between the kinematic viscosity and the magnetic diffusivity of the fluid, also known as the…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-10-17 Nathanaël Schaeffer , Dominique Jault , Philippe Cardin , Marie Drouard

We find a new set of exact solutions to Maxwell's equations in space--time varying materials, where the refractive index is constant, while the impedance exhibits effective motion, i.e. it is a function of $x-vt$. We find that waves…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Mingjie Li , S. A. R. Horsley

We study dispersion properties of linear surface gravity waves propagating in an arbitrary direction atop a current profile of depth-varying magnitude using a piecewise linear approximation, and develop a robust numerical framework for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Benjamin K. Smeltzer , Simen Å. Ellingsen

This paper is devoted to a numerical analysis of a fractional viscoelastic wave propagation model that generalizes the fractional Maxwell model and the fractional Zener model. First, we convert the model problem into a velocity type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Hao Yuan , Xiaoping Xie

In the field of structured light, the study of optical vortices and their vectorial extension--vectorial vortex beams--has garnered substantial interest due to their unique phase and polarisation properties, which make them appealing for…

Propagation of light through media with a complex refractive index in which gain and loss are engineered to be $PT$ symmetric has many remarkable features. In particular the usual unitarity relations are not satisfied, so that the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. F. Jones

Propagation characteristics of a wave are defined by the dispersion relationship, from which the governing partial differential equation (PDE) can be recovered. PDEs are commonly solved numerically using the finite-difference (FD) method,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Edward Caunt

Simulated images are essential in algorithm development and instrument testing for optical telescopes. During real observations, images obtained by optical telescopes are affected by spatially variable point spread functions (PSFs), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-17 Zeyu Bai , Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Xiang Zhang , Wennan Xiang , Lin Nie

In this paper, we present a new multiscale method which is capable of coupling atomistic and continuum domains for high frequency wave propagation analysis. The problem of non-physical wave reflection, which occurs due to the change in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 Amit K. Patra , S. Gopalakrishnan , Ranjan Ganguli

Numerical simulation of wave propagation in an infinite medium is made possible by surrounding a finite region by a perfectly matched layer (PML). Using this approach a generalized three-dimensional (3D) formulation is proposed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Hisham Assi , Richard S. C. Cobbold

The analysis of wave propagation problems in linear damped media must take into account both propagation features and attenuation process. To perform accurate numerical investigations by the finite differences or finite element method, one…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-01-26 Jean-François Semblat , J. J. Brioist

We study plasmon propagation on a metallic two-dimensional surface partially coated with a thin film of anomalous-Hall material. The resulting three regions, separated by two sharp interfaces, are characterised by different Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Thomas Benjamin Smith , Iacopo Torre , Alessandro Principi

Accurate blur estimation is essential for high-performance imaging across various applications. Blur is typically represented by the point spread function (PSF). In this paper, we propose a physics-informed PSF learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Liqun Chen , Yuxuan Li , Jun Dai , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

We have developed a computational method to describe the nonlinear light propagation of an intense and ultrashort pulse at oblique incidence on a flat surface. In the method, coupled equations of macroscopic light propagation and…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Mitsuharu Uemoto , Kazuhiro Yabana

In this paper, we consider the development and analysis of a new explicit compact high-order finite difference scheme for acoustic wave equation formulated in divergence form, which is widely used to describe seismic wave propagation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Da Li , Keran Li , Wenyuan Liao

We study propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves in a curved spacetime. We demonstrate how a modification of the standard geometric optics allows one to include the helicity dependent corrections into the equations of motion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-14 Valeri P. Frolov