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This work proposes the use of orbital angular momentum (OAM) waves to improve the performance of a computational imaging (CI) system. Specifically, in contrast to a solely frequency-diverse operation, leveraging multiple OAM waves leads to…

We analyze the propagation of elastic waves in soft materials subjected to finite deformations. We derive explicit dispersion relations, and apply these results to study elastic wave propagation in (i) nearly incompressible materials such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-05 Pavel Galich , Stephan Rudykh

The propagation of magnetostatic forward volume waves excited by a constricted coplanar waveguide is studied via inductive spectroscopy techniques. A series of devices consisting of pairs of sub-micrometer size antennae is used to perform a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Nicolás Loayza , Matthias Benjamin Jungfleisch , Axel Hoffmann , Matthieu Bailleul , Vincent Vlaminck

In non-destructive evaluation guided wave inspections, the elastic structure to be inspected is often embedded within other elastic media and the ensuing leaky waves are complex and non-trivial to compute; we consider the canonical example…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Evripides Georgiades , Michael J. S. Lowe , Richard V. Craster

A random matrix theory approach is applied in order to analyze the localization properties of local spectral density for a generic system of coupled quantum states with strong static imperfection in the unperturbed energy levels. The system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. S. Starovoitov

There is recent interest in the use of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) for creating multiple channels within free-space optical communication systems. One limiting issue is that, for a given beam size at the transmitter,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Miles J. Padgett , Filippo M. Miatto , Martin Lavery , Anton Zeilinger , Robert W. Boyd

We study numerically the propagation of two-color light pulses through a metamaterial doped with active atoms such that the carrier frequencies of the pulses are in resonance with two atomic transitions in the $\Lambda$ configuration and…

A spectrograph is an optical instrument that disperses photons of different energies into distinct directions and space locations, and images photon spectra on a position-sensitive detector. Spectrographs consist of collimating, angular…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yuri Shvyd'ko

The propagation of waves in soft dielectric elastomer layers is investigated. To this end incremental motions superimposed on homogeneous finite deformations induced by bias electric fields and pre-stretch are determined. First we examine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-22 Gal Shmuel , Massimiliano Gei , Gal deBotton

In this paper we set forth new exact analytical Superluminal localized solutions to the wave equation for arbitrary frequencies and adjustable bandwidth. The formulation presented here is rather simple, and its results can be expressed in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Zamboni-Rached , K. Z. Nobrega , H. E. Hernandez-Figueroa , Erasmo Recami

The occurrence of the modulational instability (MI) in transverse dust lattice waves propagating in a one-dimensional dusty plasma crystal is investigated. The amplitude modulation mechanism, which is related to the intrinsic nonlinearity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

We study the orbital angular momentum (OAM) transfer from a weak Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) field to a weak plane-wave in two closed-loop three-level $V$-type atomic systems. In the first scheme, the atomic system has two non-degenerate upper…

In the recent paper [1] it was shown that for paraxial propagation of scalar waves, the transverse linear momentum and orbital angular momentum (OAM) are related to the wave coherence function. Although both of these quantities are…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-10 Mikhail Charnotskii

We examine statistical properties of a laser beam propagating in a turbulent medium. We prove that the intensity fluctuations at large propagation distances possess Gaussian probability density function and establish quantitative criteria…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-06 Igor Kolokolov , Vladimir Lebedev , Pavel M. Lushnikov

We present a systematic study on linear propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in media with dispersion, dispersionless media and vacuum. The applied method of amplitude envelopes gives the opportunity to estimate the limits of slowly…

Optics · Physics 2008-01-15 Lubomir M. Kovachev

The propagation of ultracold atomic gases through abruptly changing waveguide potentials is examined in the limit of non-interacting atoms. Time-independent scattering calculations of microstructured waveguides with discontinuous changes in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Koehler , M. W. J. Bromley , B. D. Esry

We show that the field speckle pattern of transmitted microwave radiation can be decomposed into a sum of patterns of the modes of the medium. We find strong correlation between modal field speckle patterns which leads to destructive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-11 Jing Wang , Azriel Z. Genack

We examine the general question of statistical changes experienced by ensembles of nonlinear random waves propagating in systems ruled by integrable equations. In our study that enters within the framework of integrable turbulence, we…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Randoux , P. Walczak , M. Onorato , P. Suret

Speckle patterns are used in a broad range of applications including microscopy, imaging, and light-matter interactions. Tailoring speckles' statistics can dramatically enhance their performance in applications. We present an experimental…

We analize the dipole spectrum of a two-level atom excited by a non-resonant intense monochromatic field, under the electric dipole approximation and beyond the rotating wave approximation. We show that the apparently complex spectral…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-25 A. Picón , L. Roso , J. Mompart , O. Varela , V. Ahufinger , R. Corbalán , L. Plaja