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We theoretically analyze the waveguide regime of light propagation in a cylindrical pore of a polymer matrix filled with liquid crystals assuming that the effective radial optical anisotropy is biaxial. From numerical analysis of the…

The mechanical and electrical response of acoustophoretic microfluidic devices attached to an ac-voltage-driven piezoelectric transducer is studied by means of numerical simulations. The governing equations are formulated in a variational…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-07 Fabio Garofalo , Thomas Laurell , Henrik Bruus

Aluminum nitride (AlN)-on-insulator has emerged as a promising platform for the realization of linear and non-linear integrated photonic circuits. In order to efficiently route optical signals on-chip, precise control over the interaction…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Matthias Stegmaier , Wolfram H. P. Pernice

We investigate lensing and waveguiding properties of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate for ultraslow pulse generated by electromagnetically induced transparency method. We show that a significant time delay can be controllably introduced…

Optics · Physics 2011-03-25 Devrim Tarhan , Alphan Sennaroglu , Ozgur E. Mustecaplioglu

We study acoustic propagation in one dimensional water ducts containing many air-filled blocks. The acoustic band structures for the periodic arrangements of the blocks is calculated, whereas the transmission for various random…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Pi-Gang Luan , Zhen Ye

We present design of an all-optical diode in a metal-dielectric structure where plasmonic attenuation and quasi-phase-matching (QPM) is harnessed to improve its performance greatly. Due to the anti-symmetric design of the nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-19 Ming-Liang Ren , Xiao-Lan Zhong , Bao-Qin Chen , Zhi-Yuan Li

Wave propagation is a common occurrence in all of physics. A linear approximation provides a simpler way to describe various fields related to observable phenomena in laboratory physics as well as astronomy and cosmology, allowing us to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-08 Lucas T. Santana , João C. Lobato , Ribamar R. R. Reis , Maurício O. Calvão

In this paper we review basic properties of coupled periodic and aperiodic nanopillar waveguides. A coupled nanopillar waveguide consists of several rows of periodically or aperiodically placed dielectric rods (pillars). In such a…

Phonon lasers or coherent amplifications of mechanical oscillations have provided powerful tools for both fundamental studies of coherent acoustics and diverse applications ranging from ultrasensitive force sensing to phononic information…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-13 Tian-Xiang Lu , Yan Wang , Keyu Xia , Xing Xiao , Le-Man Kuang , Hui Jing

The recent identification of a modulation of acoustic waves that is driven by spatial velocity gradients, using acoustic black and white hole analogues [Schenke et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 154 (2023), 781-791], has shed new light on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-06 Fabian Denner

The manipulation of acoustic wave propagation in fluids has numerous applications, including some in everyday life. Acoustic technologies frequently develop in tandem with optics, using shared concepts such as waveguiding and metamedia. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Zhaoju Yang , Fei Gao , Xihang Shi , Xiao Lin , Zhen Gao , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

We review our recent progresses on frequency conversion in integrated devices, focusing primarily on experiments based on strip-loaded and quantum-well intermixed AlGaAs waveguides, and on CMOS-compatible high-index doped silica glass…

A theory of weakly-nonlinear low-temperature relaxational absorption of acoustic and electromagnetic waves in dielectric and metallic glasses is developed. Basing upon the model of two-level tunneling systems we show that the nonlinear…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Kirkengen , Yu. M. Galperin

Elastic cylindrical shells are fitted with an internal mechanism which is optimized so that, in the quasi-static regime, the combined system exhibits prescribed effective acoustic properties. The mechanism consists of a central mass…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Alexey S. Titovich , Andrew N. Norris

The investigation of metasurface, which is of great current interest, has opened up new degrees of freedom to research metamaterials. In this paper, we propose an ultrathin acoustic metasurface consisting of a series of structurally simple…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Shilong Zhai , Changlin Ding , Huaijun Chen , Song Liu , Chunrong Luo , Xiaopeng Zhao

The problem of propagating nonlinear acoustic waves is considered; the solution to which, both with and without damping, having been obtained to-date starting from the Navier-Stokes-Duhem equations together with the continuity and thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Markus Scholle

Introducing an axis of reflectional symmetry in a quasicrystal leads to the creation of localised edge modes that can be used to build waveguides. We develop theory that characterises reflection-induced localised modes in materials that are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Bryn Davies , Richard V Craster

Structured metamaterials are at the core of extensive research, promising for acoustic and thermal engineering. Nevertheless, the computational cost required for correctly simulating large systems imposes to use a continuous model to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-14 Haoming Luo , Valentina M. Giordano , Anthony Gravouil , Anne Tanguy

In this article, a 2D plasmonic waveguide loaded with all dielectric anisotropic metamaterial, consisting of alternative layers of Si-SiO2, has been theoretically proposed and numerically analyzed. Main characteristics of waveguide i.e.…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-30 Abid Anjum Sifat , Ayed Al Sayem , M Mahmudul Hasan Sajeeb

Optofluidic sensors based on highly dispersive two-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides are theoretically studied. Results show that these structures are strongly sensitive to the refractive index of the infiltrated liquid (nl), which is…

Optics · Physics 2011-11-10 Sanshui Xiao , Niels Asger Mortensen