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Coupling to longitudinal modes of thin spherical shells, under Gaussian-beam illumination, was explored with a theoretical method based on Fourier-optics analysis and vector spherical harmonics. The illumination frequency band was fixed…
We conceptualise and numerically simulate a resonant metamaterial interface incorporating non-local, or beyond nearest neighbour, coupling that acts as a discrete angular filter. It can be designed to yield perfect transmission at…
Ion beam irradiation has recently emerged as a versatile approach to functional materials design. We show in this work that patterned defective regions generated by ion beam irradiation of silicon can create a phonon glass electron crystal…
One-dimensional magnonic crystals have been implemented as gratings of shallow grooves chemically etched into the surface of yttrium-iron garnet films. Scattering of backward volume magnetostatic spin waves from such structures is…
In this paper the relaxed micromorphic continuum model with weighted free and gradient micro-inertia is used to describe the dynamical behavior of a real two-dimensional phononic crystal for a wide range of wavelengths. In particular, a…
The paper report new results of chromatic dispersion in Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs) through appropriate designing of index-guiding triangular-lattice structure devised, with a selective infiltration of only the first air-hole ring with…
We present graphic results with high-levels of abstraction to desribe the basic principles and rules of thumb for acoustic or phononic band-gap engineering. We use these rules for developing an improved machien mount for damping acoustic…
Optical resonances spanning the Near and Short Infra-Red spectral regime were exhibited experimentally by arrays of plasmonic nano-particles with concave cross-section. The concavity of the particle was shown to be the key ingredient for…
We experimentally realize an analogue of the optical Maxwell fish-eye lens (MFEL) using phononic excitations in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). A MFEL is characterized by a radially symmetric, spatially varying refractive index with the…
The relationships between material constructions and reflective spectrum patterns are important properties of photonic crystals. One particular interesting reflectance profile is a high-intensity and uniform three-peak pattern with peak…
Mitigating low-frequency vibration or noise is of vital importance to both human health and mechanical engineering. Two-dimensional phononic crystal (PC) structures were proposed by attaching rubber and metallic cylinders on one or both…
The use of cylindrical elastic shells as elements in acoustic metamaterial devices is demonstrated through simulations and underwater measurements of a cylindrical-to-plane wave lens. Transformation acoustics (TA) of a circular region to a…
On-chip nonlinear photonic conversion functions with wide and precise tunability as well as high conversion efficiency are highly desirable for a wide range of applications. Photonic crystal micro-ring resonators (PhCR) facilitate efficient…
Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) currently rely on application-specific designs that are geared towards a particular functionality. Development of such application-specific PIC requires considerable effort and often involves several…
Wave manipulation is essential in various applications, including seismic wave protection, sound isolation, and acoustic device design. This study examines the scattering and trapping of antiplane SH waves in a microstructured solid…
We design plano-concave silicon lenses with coupled gradient-index plasmonic metacoatings for ultrawide apertured focusing utilizing a reduced region of $\sim 20 \lambda^2$. The anomalous refraction induced in the planar input side of the…
We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of a 100 mm diameter, flat, gradient-index (GRIN) lens fabricated with high-resistivity silicon, combined with a three-layer anti-reflection (AR) structure optimized for 160-355 GHz.…
Luneburg lens is a symmetric gradient-index lens with a refractive index that increases from the outer surface to the center in a radial manner. It has the ability to focus and collimate waves, which makes it useful for energy harvesting,…
In this paper, we propose a technique named reflection F-scan or RF-scan, that can be used to measure the nonlinear-refractive index n_2 of thin-film semiconductors. In this technique, a p-polarized Gaussian beam is focused using an…
Point cloud analysis without pose priors is very challenging in real applications, as the orientations of point clouds are often unknown. In this paper, we propose a brand new point-set learning framework PRIN, namely, Point-wise Rotation…