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Light scattering in disordered media has been studied extensively due to its prevalence in natural and artificial systems [1]. In the field of photonics most of the research has focused on understanding and mitigating the effects of…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-30 Brandon Redding , Seng Fatt Liew , Raktim Sarma

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 argue that the lensing power spectrum of astrometric shift (lensing shift power spectrum) is a powerful tool of the clustering property of dark matter on subgalactic scales. First we give the formalism to probe the nature of dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-01 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Takumi Shinohara , Teruaki Suyama , Tomo Takahashi

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), under development by NASA, will investigate possible causes for the phenomenon of dark energy and detect and characterize extra-solar planets. The 2.4 m space telescope has two main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Bijan Nemati , John Krist , Ilya Poberezhskiy , Brian Kern

Just as turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere can severely limit the angular resolution of optical telescopes, turbulence in the ionized interstellar medium fundamentally limits the resolution of radio telescopes. We present a scattering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Michael D. Johnson

Dark-field images are formed by small-angle scattering of x-ray photons. The small-angle scattering signal is particularly sensitive to structural variations and density fluctuation on a length scale of several ten to hundred nanometers,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-03-11 W. Cong , F. Pfeiffer , M. Bech , O. Bunk , C. David , G. Wang

Optical wavefront-shaping has emerged as a powerful tool to manipulate light in strongly scattering media. It enables diffraction-limited focusing and imaging at depths where conventional microscopy techniques fail. However, while most…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-04 T. Chaigne , O. Katz , A. C. Boccara , M. Fink , E. Bossy , S. Gigan

Parameter estimation with non-Gaussian stochastic fields is a common challenge in astrophysics and cosmology. In this paper, we advocate performing this task using the scattering transform, a statistical tool sharing ideas with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Sihao Cheng , Yuan-Sen Ting , Brice Ménard , Joan Bruna

We experimentally and numerically study the potential of photoacoustic-guiding for light focusing through scattering samples via wavefront-shaping and iterative optimization. We experimentally demonstrate that the focusing efficiency on an…

We present a new detection algorithm based on the wavelet transform for the analysis of high energy astronomical images. The wavelet transform, due to its multi-scale structure, is suited for the optimal detection of point-like as well as…

Gravitational-wave (GW) lensing can encode valuable information about the properties of the intervening lens, but most existing studies remain restricted to the small-deflection, weak-field regime. To bridge this crucial gap, this work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 M. V. S. Saketh , Rajes Ghosh , Anuj Mishra

In this paper we present results from the weak lensing shape measurement GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2010 (GREAT10) Galaxy Challenge. This marks an order of magnitude step change in the level of scrutiny employed in weak lensing…

Low-light images suffer from complex degradation, and existing enhancement methods often encode all degradation factors within a single latent space. This leads to highly entangled features and strong black-box characteristics, making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shuangli Du , Siming Yan , Zhenghao Shi , Zhenzhen You , Lu Sun

We investigate the far-field optical resonances of individual dimer nanoantennas using confocal scattering spectroscopy. Experiments on a single-antenna array with varying arm lengths and interparticle gap sizes show large spectral shifts…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 O. L. Muskens , J. Gomez Rivas , V. Giannini , J. A. Sanchez-Gil

We revisit the WIMP-type dark matter scattering on electrons that results in atomic ionization, and can manifest itself in a variety of existing direct-detection experiments. Unlike the WIMP-nucleon scattering, where current experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-01 B. M. Roberts , V. A. Dzuba , V. V. Flambaum , M. Pospelov , Y. V. Stadnik

Revealing hidden non-radiative (dark) of resonant nanostructures using optical methods such as dark-field spectroscopy often becomes a sophisticated problem due to a weak coupling of these modes with a far-field radiation, whereas methods…

We propose a scheme for detecting and differentiating deeply subwavelength particles based on their spatial features. Our approach combines scattering from an ultrasonically modulated nanopatterend grating with heterodyne techniques to…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-24 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

Grazing incidence x-ray scattering provides nanostructural information for thin film samples, but single images generally do not provide information on film thickness or the full complex index of refraction. Additionally, for thin films…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Peter J. Dudenas , Adam Z. Weber , Ahmet Kusoglu

Light scattering limits the penetration depth of non-invasive Raman spectroscopy in biological media. While safe levels of irradiation may be adequate to analyze superficial tissue, scattering of the pump beam reduces the Raman signal to…

Invisibility cloaks have become one of the most outstanding developments among the wide range of applications in the field of metamaterials. So far, most efforts in invisibility science have been devoted to achieving practically realizable…