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Advances in vectorial polarisation-resolved imaging are bringing new capabilities to applications ranging from fundamental physics through to clinical diagnosis. Imaging polarimetry requires determination of the Mueller matrix (MM) at every…

A number of different mechanisms exist which can produce vector perturbations to the metric. One might think that such perturbations could deflect light rays from distant sources, producing observable effects. Indeed, this is expected to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dodelson , C. Wiegert

Structured light harnessing multiple degrees of freedom has become a powerful approach to use complex states of light in fundamental studies and applications. Here, we investigate the light field of an ultrafast laser beam with a…

The propagation of signals in space-time is considered on the basis of the notion of null (isotropic) vector field in spaces with affine connections and metrics as models of space or of space-time. The Doppler effect is generalized for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sawa Manoff

Optics naturally provides us with some powerful mathematical operations. Here we experimentally demonstrate that during reflection or refraction at a single optical planar interface, the optical computing of spatial differentiation can be…

The determination of velocities of stars from precise Doppler measurements is described here using relativistic theory of astronomical reference frames so as to determine the Keplerian and post-Keplerian parameters of binary systems. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Kopeikin , L. M. Ozernoy

Structured light, when strongly focused, generates highly confined vectorial electromagnetic field distributions which may feature a polarization component along the optical axis. Manipulating and detecting such 3D light fields is…

Adaptive optics normally concerns the feedback correction of phase aberrations. Such correction has been of benefit in various optical systems, with applications ranging in scale from astronomical telescopes to super-resolution microscopes.…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-07 Chao He , Jacopo Antonello , Martin J. Booth

The incorporation of structured light techniques into vision science has enabled more selective probes of polarization related entoptic phenomena. Diverse sets of stimuli have become accessible in which the spatially dependant optical…

In this paper, we study how to directly measure the effect of peculiar velocities in the observed angular power spectra. We do this by constructing a new anti-symmetric estimator of Large Scale Structure using different dark matter tracers.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 José Fonseca , Chris Clarkson

Vectorially structured light has emerged as an enabling tool in many diverse applications, from communication to imaging, exploiting quantum-like correlations courtesy of a non-separable spatially varying polarization structure. Creating…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-06 Yijie Shen , Isaac Nape , Xilin Yang , Xing Fu , Mali Gong , Darryl Naidoo , Andrew Forbes

Vectorial structured light with spatially varying amplitude, phase, and polarization is reshaping many areas of modern optics, including nonlinear optics, as diverse parametric processes can be used to explore interactions between such…

We describe a global parametric model for the observed power spectra of solar oscillations of intermediate and low degree. A physically motivated parameterization is used as a substitute for a direct description of mode excitation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sergei V. Vorontsov , Stuart M. Jefferies

We theoretically investigate the optical rotational Doppler Effect using modal expansion method. We find that the frequency shift content is only determined by the surface of spinning object and the reduced Doppler shift is linear to the…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-16 Hailong Zhou , Jianji Dong , Pei Zhang , Xinliang Zhang

This paper aims to shed some more light on one of the best known phenomena in the field of physics, the Doppler effect, in particular, on its classical version. Although, as mentioned, it is a phenomenon already described more than 150…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Óscar Alejos , José María Muñoz

Doppler lensing is the apparent change in object size and magnitude due to peculiar velocities. Objects falling into an overdensity appear larger on its near side, and smaller on its far side, than typical objects at the same redshifts.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 David J. Bacon , Sambatra Andrianomena , Chris Clarkson , Krzysztof Bolejko , Roy Maartens

The diagram showing off-center nested spheres which is traditionally used to illustrate the Doppler effect, is misleading and its trigonometric analysis leads to errors concerning light, because electromagnetic Doppler and aberration…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-01 Denis Michel

The Doppler effect is commonly used to infer the velocity difference between stars based on the relative shifts in the rest-frame wavelengths of their spectral features. In dynamically-cold systems with a low velocity dispersion, such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-22 Abraham Loeb

The rotational Doppler effect, for which the frequency shift is proportional to the light's orbital angular momentum $\ell$ and the object's rotational speed ($\Delta f \propto\ell \Omega$), has proven to be a powerful tool for detecting…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Juedong Yang , Yuan Li , Wuhong Zhang , Lixiang Chen

Photospheric velocities and stellar activity features such as spots and faculae produce measurable radial velocity signals that currently obscure the detection of sub-meter-per-second planetary signals. However, photospheric velocities are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Allen B. Davis , Jessi Cisewski , Xavier Dumusque , Debra A. Fischer , Eric B. Ford