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The recent development of phase-grating moir\'e neutron interferometry promises a wide range of impactful experiments from dark-field imaging of material microstructure to precise measurements of fundamental constants. However, the contrast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-13 B. Heacock , D. Sarenac , D. G. Cory , M. G. Huber , D. S. Hussey , C. Kapahi , H. Miao , H. Wen , D. A. Pushin

A high reflectivity and polarization selective high contrast grating mirror has been designed with the use of an automated optimization algorithm. Through a precise study of the tolerance of the different lengths of the structure, the…

Far-field characterization of small objects is severely constrained by the diffraction limit. Existing tools achieving sub-diffraction resolution often utilize point-by-point image reconstruction via scanning or labelling. Here, we present…

Neutrons have emerged as a unique probe at the forefront of modern material science, unrivaled in their penetrating abilities. A major challenge stems from the fact that neutron optical devices are limited to refractive indices on the order…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 C. Kapahi , D. Sarenac , M. Bleuel , D. G. Cory , B. Heacock , M. Henderson , M. G. Huber , I. Taminiau , D. A. Pushin

We construct an electron optical system to investigate Bragg diffraction (the crystal lattice plane, $10^{-2}$-$10^{-3}$ rad) with the objective lens turned off by adjusting the current in the intermediate lenses. A crossover was located on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Hiroshi Nakajima , Atsuhiro Kotani , Ken Harada , Shigeo Mori

We show that engineered diffraction gratings can considerably simplify the design and performance of acoustic devices. Acoustic reflecting gratings based on rectangular cavities drilled on an acoustically rigid surface are designed in such…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Yabin Jin , Xinsheng Fang , Yong Li , Daniel Torrent

Astronomical imaging with micro-arcsecond ($\mu$as) angular resolution could enable breakthrough scientific discoveries. Previously-proposed $\mu$as X-ray imager designs have been interferometers with limited effective collecting area. Here…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Brandon D. Chalifoux , Ralf K. Heilmann , Herman L. Marshall , Mark L. Schattenburg

Dielectric metasurfaces require high refractive index contrast materials for optimum performance. This requirement imposes a severe restraint; devices have either been demonstrated at wavelengths of 700nm and above using high-index…

We consider Wood anomalies in diffraction spectrum from two-dimensional dielectric periodic grid embedded in a surrounding media. The grid is of subwavelength thickness, and diffraction of wave having S-polarization is investigated in the…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-14 Ekaterina Efremova , Sergey Perminov , Sergey S. Vergeles

We present a high efficiency, high resolution on-chip filterbank spectrometer designed for line intensity mapping and broadband wave-like dark matter searches. Existing superconducting filterbank architectures used by the mm-wave community…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Oliver Jeong

Linear discrete diffraction of light within a waveguide array allows control over the longitudinal spatial profile of light. We propose a method of using this control to effectively modulate the nonlinearity in a spontaneous four wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Philip B. Main , Peter J. Mosley , Andrey V. Gorbach

Optical grating technique, where optical gratings are generated via light inference, has been widely used to measure charge carrier and phonon transport in semiconductors. In this paper, compared are three types of transient optical grating…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-07 Ke Chen , Xianghai Meng , Feng He , Yongjian Zhou , Jihoon Jeong , Nathanial Sheehan , Seth R Bank , Yaguo Wang

As opposed to metasurfaces, metagratings represent themselves sparse arrangements of scatterers. Established rigorous analytical models allow metagratings to overcome performance of metasurfaces in beam steering applications while handling…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Vladislav Popov , Fabrice Boust , Shah Nawaz Burokur

Application of the differential method (also called the C method) to plane-wave diffraction by a perfectly conducting, sinusoidally corrugated metallic grating coated with a linear, homogeneous, isotropic, lossless dielectric-magnetic…

We report on the design and experimental characterization of a suspended silicon nitride subwavelength grating possessing a polarization-independent guided-mode resonance at oblique incidence. At this resonant wavelength we observe that the…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-25 Ali Akbar Darki , Søren Peder Madsen , Aurélien Dantan

This paper studies the theory and applications of the diffraction of electromagnetic waves by space-time periodic (STP) diffraction gratings. We show that, in contrast with conventional spatially periodic grating, a STP diffraction grating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

The anomalous features in diffraction patterns first observed by Wood over a century ago have been the subject of many investigations, both experimental and theoretical. The sharp, narrow structures - and the large resonances with which…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-29 Daniel A. Travo , Rodrigo A. Muniz , Marco Liscidini , J. E. Sipe

We experimentally demonstrate a broadband, fabrication tolerant, CMOS compatible compact silicon waveguide taper (34.2 um) in silicon-on-insulator wire waveguides. The taper works on multi-mode interference along the length of the taper. A…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Purnima Sethi , Shankar Kumar Selvaraja

In the present work we discuss a possibility to build an instrument with two operation modes - spectral and imaging ones. The key element of such instrument is a dispersive and filtering unit consisting of two narrowband volume-phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-16 Eduard R. Muslimov , Sergei N. Fabrika , Gennady G. Valyavin

Nanothermochromic diffraction gratings based on the metal-insulator transition of $\mathrm{VO_2}$ are fabricated by site-selective ion beam implantation in a $\mathrm{SiO_2}$ matrix. Gratings were defined either (i) directly by spatially…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-25 Johannes Zimmer , Achim Wixforth , Helmut Karl , Hubert J. Krenner