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The wavefront measurement of a light beam is a complex task, which often requires a series of spatially resolved intensity measurements. For instance, a detector array may be used to measure the local phase gradient in the transverse plane…

We study detection and imaging of small reflectors in heavy clutter, using an array of transducers that emits and receives sound waves. Heavy clutter means that multiple scattering of the waves in the heterogeneous host medium is strong and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Liliana Borcea , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Conventional surface-relief gratings are inefficient at deflecting normally-incident light by large angles. This constrains their use in many applications and limits the overall efficiency of any optical instrument integrating gratings.…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-19 Ashutosh Patri , Stephane Kena-Cohen , Christophe Caloz

In this paper, we show by experiment that by covering a thin flat nonlinear lens on the sources, the sub-diffraction-limit observation can be achieved by measuring either the near-field distribution or the far-field radiation of the sources…

This paper introduces a two-and multi-level phase mask design for improved depth of focus. A novel technique is proposed incorporating cubic and generalized cubic wavefront coding (WFC). The obtained system is optical-electronic requiring…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-26 Vladimir Katkovnik , Nicholas Hogasten , Karen Egiazarian

Multiple scattering of waves in complex media can be harnessed and tailored for diverse phenomena in sound and light. Despite the tremendous progress enabled by technologies such as time-reversal propagation and wavefront shaping, the full…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Hongkuan Zhang , Guancong Ma

When light passes through a multimode fiber, two-dimensional random intensity patterns are formed due to the complex interference within the fiber. The extreme sensitivity of speckle patterns to the frequency of light paved the way for…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-25 Şahin Kürekci , S. Süleyman Kahraman , Emre Yüce

Passive transformation of waves via nonlinear systems is ubiquitous in settings ranging from acoustics to optics and electromagnetics. Passivity is of particular importance for responding rapidly to stimuli and nonlinearity enormously…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-02 Brianna MacNider , Haning Xiu , Kai Qian , Ian Frankel , Hyunsun Alicia Kim , Nicholas Boechler

A wave propagating through a scattering medium typically yields a complex temporal field distribution. Over the years, a number of procedures have emerged to shape the temporal profile of the field in order to temporally focus its energy on…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Dorian Bouchet , Emmanuel Bossy

Parameter estimation of gravitational wave data is often computationally expensive, requiring simplifying assumptions such as circularisation of binary orbits. Although, if included, the sub-dominant effects like orbital eccentricity may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 Rimo Das , V. Gayathri , Divyajyoti , Sijil Jose , Imre Bartos , Sergey Klimenko , Chandra Kant Mishra

Optical focusing through/inside scattering media, like multimode fiber and biological tissues, has significant impact in biomedicine yet considered challenging due to strong scattering nature of light. Previously, promising progress has…

Manipulating and focusing light deep inside biological tissue and tissue-like complex media has been desired for long yet considered challenging. One feasible strategy is through optical wavefront engineering, where the optical…

In this study, we present an approach to ultrasonic beamforming and high resolution identification of acoustic sources having critical implications for structural health monitoring technology. The proposed concept is based on the design of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Fabio Semperlotti , Hongfei Zhu

Complex-valued signals encode both amplitude and phase, yet most deep models treat attention as real-valued correlation, overlooking interference effects. We introduce the Holographic Transformer, a physics-inspired architecture that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Enhao Huang , Zhiyu Zhang , Tianxiang Xu , Chunshu Xia , Kaichun Hu , Yuchen Yang , Tongtong Pan , Dong Dong , Zhan Qin

Microwave imaging is commonly based on the solution of linearized inverse scattering problems by matched filtering algorithms, i.e., by applying the adjoint of the forward scattering operator to the observation data. A more rigorous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Matthias M. Saurer , Han Na , Marius Brinkmann , Thomas F. Eibert

A wave packet undergoes a strong spatial and temporal dispersion while propagating through a complex medium. This wave scattering is often seen as a nightmare in wave physics whether it be for focusing, imaging or communication purposes.…

Imaging through opaque, highly scattering walls is a long sought after capability with potential applications in a variety of fields. The use of wavefront shaping to compensate for scattering has brought a renewed interest as a potential…

In this work, we present a novel technique to directly measure the phase shift of the optical signal scattered by single plasmonic nanoparticles in a diffraction-limited laser focus. We accomplish this by equipping an inverted confocal…

This paper deals with the case of using nonlinear diffusion filters to obtain piecewise constant images as a previous process for segmentation techniques. We first show an intrinsic formulation for the nonlinear diffusion equation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Javier Sanguino , Carlos Platero , Olga Velasco

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scattering by a nonlinear crystal whose depth is about the wavelength of the impinging field. More precisely, an infinite nonlinear slab is illuminated by an incident field which is the sum of…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-22 Pierre Godard , Frederic Zolla , Andre Nicolet