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In the context of the interaction between the electromagnetic field and a dielectric dispersive lossless medium, we present a non-linear version of the relativistically covariant Hopfield model, which is suitable for the description of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 F. Belgiorno , S. L. Cacciatori , F. Dalla Piazza , M. Doronzo

We report on the stationary and robust propagation of light beams with rather arbitrary and controllable intensity and dissipation transverse patterns in self-focusing Kerr media with nonlinear absorption. When nonlinear absorption is due…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-19 Miguel A. Porras , Carlos Ruiz-Jiménez , Márcio Carvalho

Problems with localized nonhomogeneous material properties present well-known challenges for numerical simulations. In particular, such problems may feature large differences in length scales, causing difficulties with meshing and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Alex Viguerie , Silvia Bertoluzza , Alessandro Veneziani , Ferdinando Auricchio

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem which aims to determine the spatially distributed dielectric constant coefficient of the 2D Helmholtz equation from multifrequency backscatter data associated with a single…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Trung Truong , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Michael Klibanov

Optical diffraction tomography relies on solving an inverse scattering problem governed by the wave equation. Classical reconstruction algorithms are based on linear approximations of the forward model (Born or Rytov), which limits their…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Emmanuel Soubies , Thanh-An Pham , Michael Unser

In this paper, an efficient iterative method is proposed for solving multiple scattering problem in locally inhomogeneous media. The key idea is to enclose the inhomogeneity of the media by well separated artificial boundaries and then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Ziqing Xie , Rui Zhang , Bo Wang , Li-lian Wang

It is shown that in polar geometry and normal incidence the 2x2 matrix technique - as discussed in detail in a preceeding paper [Phys. Rev. B 65, 144448 (2002)] - accounts correctly for multiple reflections and optical interferences, and…

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We use blow-up solutions of nonlinear Helmholtz equations to introduce a nonlinear resonance effect that is capable of amplifying electromagnetic waves of particular intensity. To achieve this, we propose a scattering setup consisting of a…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-28 Ali Mostafazadeh , Hamed Ghaemi-Dizicheh , Sasan Hajizadeh

We propose an alternative method to generate samples of a spatially correlated random field with applications to large-scale problems for forward propagation of uncertainty. A classical approach for generating these samples is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-27 Sarah Osborn , Panayot Vassilevski , Umberto Villa

A simple analytic method of estimating the error involved in using an approximate boundary condition for diffuse radiation in two adjoining scattering media with differing refractive index is presented. The method is based on asymptotic…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Adrian C. Selden

This work considers the propagation of high-frequency waves in highly-scattering media where physical absorption of a nonlinear nature occurs. Using the classical tools of the Wigner transform and multiscale analysis, we derive semilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Joseph Kraisler , Wei Li , Kui Ren , John C. Schotland , Yimin Zhong

We consider the inverse scattering problem for sparse scatterers. An image reconstruction algorithm is proposed that is based on a nonlinear generalization of iterative hard thresholding. The convergence and error of the method was analyzed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Anna C. Gilbert , Howard W. Levinson , John C. Schotland

We present and analyze a multiscale method for wave propagation problems, posed on spatial networks. By introducing a coarse scale, using a finite element space interpolated onto the network, we construct a discrete multiscale space using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Morgan Görtz , Per Ljung , Axel Målqvist

This paper shows that the Heterogeneous Multiscale Method can be applied to elliptic problem without scale separation. The Localized Orthogonal Method is a special case of the Heterogeneous Multiscale Method.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Tao Yu , Xingye Yue , Changjuan Zhang

Multiscale problems are computationally costly to solve by direct simulation because the smallest scales must be represented over a domain determined by the largest scales of the problem. We have developed and analyzed new numerical methods…

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In this paper we study nonlinear Helmholtz equations with sign-changing diffusion coefficients on bounded domains. The existence of an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions is established making use of weak T-coercivity theory. All…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Rainer Mandel , Zoïs Moitier , Barbara Verfürth

We present a recursive algorithm for multi-coefficient inversion in nonlinear Helmholtz equations with polynomial-type nonlinearities, utilizing the linearized Dirichlet-to-Neumann map as measurement data. To achieve effective recursive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Shuai Lu , Boxi Xu

The multiple scattering of scalar waves in diffusive media is investigated by means of the radiative transfer equation. This approach, which does not rely on the diffusion approximation, becomes asymptotically exact in the regime of most…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Amic , J. M. Luck , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

The multiple scattering of scalar waves in diffusive media is investigated by means of the radiative transfer equation. This approach amounts to a resummation of the ladder diagrams of the Born series; it does not rely on the diffusion…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Amic , J. M. Luck , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen