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We study the fundamental limit on the localization precision for a subwavelength scatterer embedded in a strongly scattering environment, using the external degrees of freedom provided by wavefront shaping. For a weakly scattering target,…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-05 Dorian Bouchet , Rémi Carminati , Allard P. Mosk

We investigate the statistics of single-mode delay times of waves reflected from a disordered waveguide in the presence of wave localization. The distribution of delay times is qualitatively different from the distribution in the diffusive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Schomerus , K. J. H. van Bemmel , C. W. J. Beenakker

We enhanced the total transmission of light through a disordered waveguide with spatially inhomogeneous scattering and loss by shaping the incident wavefront of a laser beam. Using an on-chip tapered lead, we were able to access all input…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-20 Raktim Sarma , Alexey Yamilov , Hui Cao

We present a mathematical theory of time-harmonic wave propagation and reflection in a two-dimensional random acoustic waveguide with sound soft boundary and turning points. The boundary has small fluctuations on the scale of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Derek Wood

We demonstrate experimentally an efficient control of light intensity distribution inside a random scattering system. The adaptive wavefront shaping technique is applied to a silicon waveguide containing scattering nanostructures, and the…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Raktim Sarma , Alexey Yamilov , Sasha Petrenko , Yaron Bromberg , Hui Cao

The complex temporal behavior of an ultrashort pulse of light propagating through a multiply scattering medium can be characterized experimentally through a time-gated transmission matrix. Using a spatial light modulator, we demonstrate…

Waves incident to a highly scattering medium are incapable of penetrating deep into the medium due to the diffusion process induced by multiple scattering. This poses a fundamental limitation to optically imaging, sensing, and manipulating…

Wavefront shaping is a powerful technique that can be used to focus light through scattering media, which can be important for imaging through scattering samples such as tissue. The method is based on the assumption that the field at the…

We investigate wave propagation and energy transport in magnetic elements, which are representatives of small scale magnetic flux concentrations in the magnetic network on the Sun. This is a continuation of earlier work by Hasan et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Vigeesh , S. S. Hasan , O. Steiner

We report the first experimental demonstration of combined spatial and temporal control of light trajectories through opaque media. This control is achieved by solely manipulating spatial degrees of freedom of the incident wavefront. As an…

We present the results of numerical simulations of wave propagation and jet formation in solar atmosphere models with different magnetic field configurations. The presence in the chromosphere of waves with periods longer than the acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-05 L. Heggland , V. H. Hansteen , B. De Pontieu , M. Carlsson

We develop a statistical theory of waveform shaping of incident waves that aim to efficiently deliver energy at weakly lossy targets which are embedded inside chaotic enclosures. Our approach utilizes the universal features of chaotic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-25 Huanan Li , Suwun Suwunnarat , Tsampikos Kottos

Scattering hinders the passage of light through random media and consequently limits the usefulness of optical techniques for sensing and imaging. Thus, methods for increasing the transmission of light through such random media are of…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

Controlling wave transmission is crucial for various applications. In this work, we apply the concept of unitary control to manipulate multiport wave transmission. Unitary control aims to control the behaviors of a set of orthogonal waves…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-13 Cheng Guo , David A. B. Miller , Shanhui Fan

In wavefront shaping, waves are focused through complex media onto one or more target points, and the resulting intensity enhancement is quantified by the enhancement factor. While reproducible enhancement is crucial in experiments, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-26 Grégory Schehr , Hasan Yılmaz

The deflection of waves by combining the effects of time modulation with anisotropy has been recently proposed in the context of electromagnetism. In this work, we characterise this phenomenon, called temporal aiming, for water waves using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Magdalini Koukouraki , Philippe Petitjeans , Agnès Maurel , Vincent Pagneux

We present a new method for the control of waves based on inverse multiple scattering theory. Conceived as a generalization of the concept of metagrating, we call metaclusters to a finite set of scatterers whose position and properties are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pawel Packo , Andrew Norris , Dani Torrent

Wave scattering plays a central role for the modeling of complex wave propagation across all corners of science and engineering applications, including electromagnetic, acoustics, seismic and scattering physics. Wave control using time…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-05 Xingguo Huang , Li Han , Stewart Greenhalgh , Ru-Shan Wu

While controlling particle diffusion in a confined geometry is a popular approach taken by both natural and artificial systems, it has not been widely adopted for controlling light transport in random media, where wave interference effects…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-06 Raktim Sarma , Alexey Yamilov , Seng Fatt Liew , Mikhael Guy , Hui Cao

This work investigates the effects of time-varying media, where optical properties change over time, on electromagnetic wave propagation, focusing on plane waves and free-electron evanescent waves. We introduce a switching parameter,…