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The general method to obtain solutions of the Maxwellian equations from scalar representatives is developed and applied to the diffraction of electromagnetic waves. Kirchhoff's integral is modified to provide explicit expressions for these…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ulrich Brosa

Traditionally, the diffraction of a scalar wave satisfying Helmholtz equation through an aperture on an otherwise black screen can be solved approximately by Kirchhoff's integral over the aperture. Rubinowicz, on the other hand, was able to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Yi-Chuan Lu

In this paper, we establish two sharp quantitative results for the direct and inverse time-harmonic acoustic wave scattering. The first one is concerned with the recovery of the support of an inhomogeneous medium, independent of its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Emilia L. K. Blåsten , Hongyu Liu

Kirchhoff's scalar diffraction theory is applied throughout photon and electron optics. It is based on the stationary electromagnetic or Schr\"odinger wave equation, and is useful in describing interference phenomena for both light and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Ruben Van Boxem , Bart Partoens , Jo Verbeeck

Scattering of a time harmonic anti-plane shear wave due to either a pair of crack tips or a pair of rigid constraint tips on square lattice is considered. The two problems correspond to the so called zero-offset case of scattering due to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Basant Lal Sharma , Gaurav Maurya

We study the problem of diffraction by a right-angled no-contrast penetrable wedge by means of a two-complex-variable Wiener-Hopf approach. Specifically, the analyticity properties of the unknown (spectral) functions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Valentin D. Kunz , Raphael C. Assier

A solution to the problem of water-wave scattering by a semi-infinite submerged thin elastic plate, which is either porous or non-porous, is presented using the Wiener-Hopf technique. The derivation of the Wiener-Hopf equation is rather…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-03 M. J. A. Smith , M. A. Peter , I. D. Abrahams , M. H. Meylan

A rigorous approach for solving canonical circular open-ended dielectric-lined waveguide diffraction problems is presented. This is continuation of our recent paper [1] where a simpler case of uniform dielectric filling has been considered.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Sergey N. Galyamin , Viktor V. Vorobev

In this paper, the high-frequency diffraction of a plane wave incident along a planar boundary turning into a smooth convex contour, so that the curvature undergoes a jump, is asymptotically analysed. An approach modifying the Fock…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Ekaterina A. Zlobina , Aleksei P. Kiselev

We study wave scattering by a finite transversal strip in a discrete square-lattice waveguide with Dirichlet boundary conditions imposed on the strip and the waveguide walls. The setting is motivated as a discrete analogue of the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Elena Medvedeva , Raphael Assier , Anastasia Kisil

Starting with Maxwell's equations, we derive the fundamental results of the Huygens-Fresnel-Kirchhoff and Rayleigh-Sommerfeld theories of scalar diffraction and scattering. These results are then extended to cover the case of vector…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-16 Masud Mansuripur

We consider the Sommerfeld problem of diffraction by an opaque half-plane with a real wavenumber interpreting it as the limiting case, as time tends to infinity, of the corresponding time-dependent diffraction problem. We prove that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 A. Merzon , P. Zhevandrov , J. E. De la Paz Méndez , T. J. Villalba Vega

Three problems for a discrete analogue of the Helmholtz equation are studied analytically using the plane wave decomposition and the Sommerfeld integral approach. They are: 1) the problem with a point source on an entire plane; 2) the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-15 A. V. Shanin , A. I. Korolkov

A problem of scattering by a Dirichlet right angle on a discrete square lattice is studied. The waves are governed by a discrete Helmholtz equation. The solution is looked for in the form of the Sommerfeld integral. The Sommerfeld…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 A. V. Shanin , A. I. Korolkov

Despite numerous applications of two-dimensional plasmons for electromagnetic energy manipulation at the nanoscale, their quantitative refraction and reflection laws (analogs of Fresnel formulas in optics) have not yet been established.…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-10 Dmitry Svintsov , Georgy Alymov

Diffraction is a phenomenon, discussed for centuries from various points of view. The very simple principle, proposed by Huygens [1] and then modified by Fresnel[2], Stokes [3] and Kirchoff [4], allows us to make calculations, substituting…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-03 Ilya A. Kudryavtsev

Scattering of a plane electromagnetic wave by an anisotropic impedance right-angled concave wedge at skew incidence is analyzed. A closed-form solution is derived by reducing the problem to a symmetric order-2 vector Riemann-Hilbert problem…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-16 Y. A. Antipov

We solve the Milne, constant-source and albedo problems for isotropic scattering in a two-dimensional "Flatland" half-space via the Wiener-Hopf method. The Flatland $H$-function is derived and benchmark values and some identities unique to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Eugene d'Eon , M. M. R. Williams

The diffraction of a scalar plane wave from a doubly-periodic surface on which either the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition is imposed is studied by means of a rigorous numerical solution of the Rayleigh equation for the amplitudes of…

A problem of diffraction of a symmetrical transverse magnetic mode $ \text{TM}_{0l} $ by an open-ended cylindrical waveguide corrugated inside is considered. A depth and a period of corrugations are supposed to be much less than the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Sergey N. Galyamin , Aleksandra A. Grigoreva