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In this paper we present an inverse-designed 3D-printed all-dielectric stretchable millimeter wave metalens with a tunable focal distance. Computational inverse-design method is used to design a flat metalens made of disconnected building…

Unidirectional optical systems enable selective control of light through asymmetric processing of radiation, effectively transmitting light in one direction while blocking unwanted propagation in the opposite direction. Here, we introduce a…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-21 Yuhang Li , Tianyi Gan , Jingxi Li , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

We consider cloaking by a coated cylindrical system using plasmonic resonance, and extend previous quasistatic treatments to include the effect of finite wavelength. We show that a probe cylinder can still be cloaked at finite wavelengths,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 N-A P Nicorovici , R C McPhedran , S Enoch , G Tayeb

A set of grating couplers that convert plane waves into odd pairs of plasmons supported by extremely thin layers of doped indium tin oxide is designed. The inverse design approach is implemented to improve the efficiency of ordinary…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-15 Marius Puplauskis , Ivan A. Pshenichnyuk

In quantum illumination entangled light is employed to enhance the detection accuracy of an object when compared with the best classical protocol. On the other hand, cloaking is a stealth technology based on covering a target with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 U. Las Heras , R. Di Candia , K. G. Fedorov , F. Deppe , M. Sanz , E. Solano

By using the novel property of the rectangular superscatterer, we propose a design which can conceal an entrance from electromagnetic wave detection. Such a superscatterer is realized by coating a negative index material shell on a perfect…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xudong Luo , Tao Yang , Yongwei Gu , Hongru Ma

The extraordinary properties of resonant four-wave mixing of backward waves in doped negative-index materials are investigated. The feasibility of independent engineering of negative refractive index and nonlinear optical response as well…

In this paper, we propose practicable GLHUA invisible cloaks, our cloak absorb the incident wave and create outgoing wave that make them to be invisible cloaks and analytical electromagnetic (EM) wave without exceeding light speed…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Jianhua Li , Feng Xie , Lee Xie , Ganquan Xie

The performance of antennas can severely deteriorate in the presence of adjacent electrically-large scatterers. In this work, we use a conducting hollow cylinder to shield the scatterer. The cylinder is shelled with single layer dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-24 Yi Zhang , Haiyan Fan , Yujie Zhang , Lixin Ran , Dexin Ye , Xudong Chen

An elliptical invisible cloak is proposed using a coordinate transformation in the elliptical-cylindrical coordinate system, which crushes the cloaked object to a line segment instead of a point. The elliptical cloak is reduced to a…

We theoretically and numerically demonstrate that hydrodynamic cloaking can be achieved by simply adjusting the geometric depth of a region surrounding an object in microscale flow, rendering the external flow field undisturbed. Using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-23 Hongyu Liu , Zhi-Qiang Miao , Guang-Hui Zheng

Inverse design (ID) is a computational method that systematically explores a design space to find optimal device geometries based on specific performance criteria. In silicon photonics, ID often leads to devices with design features that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Shaheer Khan , Mustafa Hammood , Nicolas A. F. Jaeger , Lukas Chrostowski

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

Transformation optics (TO) is a powerful tool for the design of artiffcial materials with unprecedented optical properties. Here, we propose the approximation of TO structures of arbitrary shape by faceting, in which curved surfaces are…

This paper concerns the analysis of a passive, broadband approximate cloaking scheme for the Helmholtz equation in ${\mathbb R}^d$ for $d=2$ or $d=3$. Using ideas from transformation optics, we construct an approximate cloak by ``blowing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Fioralba Cakoni , Narek Hovsepyan , Michael Vogelius

Simultaneously guiding electromagnetic waves and heat flow at any incidence angle to smoothly bypass some electromagnetic/thermal sensitive elements is a key factor to ensure efficient communication and thermal protection for an on-chip…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Yichao Liu , Hanchuan Chen , Gang Zhao , Fei Sun

Negative index materials are artificial structures whose refractive index has negative value over some frequency range. The study of these materials has attracted a lot of attention in the scientific community not only because of their many…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Hoai-Minh Nguyen

We consider the inverse problem of determining an optical mask that produces a desired circuit pattern in photolithography. We set the problem as a shape design problem in which the unknown is a two-dimensional domain. The relationship…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Luca Rondi , Fadil Santosa

We implemented the inverse design method to build a thin near-field lens that could produce a desired subwavelength focus by manipulating the near fields of a magnetic dipole source. The flat near-field lens represented by an artificial…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lu Lan , Wei Jiang , Yungui Ma

Love waves are antiplane elastic waves which propagate along the surface of a heterogeneous medium. Under time-harmonic regime, they are governed by a scalar equation of the Helmholtz type. We exploit the invariance of this governing…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Z. Chatzopoulos , A. Palermo , S. Guenneau , A. Marzani