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Multi-channel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) is a seismic method employed to obtain useful information about shear-wave velocities in the near surface. A fundamental step in this methodology is the extraction of dispersion curves from…

We demonstrate the densification of a granular model system of polystyrene spheres over time by shaking with varying excitation amplitudes or effective temperatures. This densification is quantified by the mean square displacement (MSD),…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-05 Marlo Kunzner , Christopher Mayo , Matthias Sperl , Jan Philipp Gabriel

Wavefront sensing with a thin diffuser has emerged as a potential low-cost alternative to a lenslet array for aberrometry. Diffuser wavefront sensors (DWS) have previously relied on tracking speckle displacement and consequently require…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-01 Gregory N. McKay , Faisal Mahmood , Nicholas J. Durr

The purpose of this work is to understand the fundamental connection between structural correlations and light localization in three-dimensional (3D) open scattering systems of finite size. We numerically investigate the transport of vector…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-14 Fabrizio Sgrignuoli , Salvatore Torquato , Luca Dal Negro

Recent ultrasound imaging modalities based on ultrasound computed tomography indicate a huge potential to detect pathologies is tissue due to altered biomechanical properties. Especially the imaging of speed-of-sound (SoS) distribution in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Richard Rau , Dieter Schweizer , Valery Vishnevskiy , Orcun Goksel

In this letter, we demonstrate a novel diffraction-free Bloch surface wave (DF-BSW) sustained on all-dielectric multilayers that does not diffract after being passed through three obstacles or across a single mode fiber. It can propagate in…

Elastic metasurfaces offer precise control over elastic waves for applications such as vibration isolation, sensing, and imaging. However, achieving high-efficiency and scattering-free performance with complex functionalities remains a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Chun Min Li , Wenjing Ye

It has been shown that light speckle fluctuations provide a means for noninvasive measurements of cerebral blood flow index (CBFi). While conventional Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) provides marginal brain sensitivity for CBFi in…

A multispeckle technique for efficiently measuring correctly ensemble-averaged intensity autocorrelation functions of scattered light from non-ergodic and/or non-stationary systems is described. The method employs a CCD camera as a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Virgile. Viasnoff , Francois Lequeux , D. J. Pine

Generative diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in producing high-quality images. However, these models typically operate in continuous intensity spaces, diffusing independently across pixels and color channels. As a result,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Javier E. Santos , Agnese Marcato , Roman Colman , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

All prior applications of Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) to aqueous foams rely upon the assumption that the electric field of the detected light is a Gaussian random variable and that, hence, the Siegert relation applies. Here we test…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. S. Gittings , D. J. Durian

We report in this paper what is to our knowledge the first observation of a time-resolved diffusing wave spectroscopy signal recorded by transillumination through a thick turbid medium: the DWS signal is measured for a fixed photon transit…

At millimeter-wave frequencies, diffuse scattering from rough surfaces is an important propagation mechanism. Including this mechanism in radio propagation modeling tools,such as ray-tracing, is a key step towards realizing accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Stefanos Bakirtzis , Takahiro Hashimoto , Costas D. Sarris

Waveguide design is crucial in developing efficient light delivery systems, requiring meticulous material selection, precise manufacturing, and rigorous performance optimization, including dispersion engineering. Here, we introduce…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-10 Yuntian Wang , Yuhang Li , Tianyi Gan , Kun Liao , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Diffusion models have recently set new benchmarks in Speech Enhancement (SE). However, most existing score-based models treat speech spectrograms merely as generic 2D images, applying uniform processing that ignores the intrinsic structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ke Xue , Rongfei Fan , Kai Li , Shanping Yu , Puning Zhao , Jianping An

Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) allows the label-free investigation of microvascular dynamics deep within living tissue. However, common implementations of DCS are currently limited to measurement depths of $\sim 1-1.5cm$, which can…

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) are expanding nonlinear wave trains that arise when dispersion regularizes a steepening front, a phenomenon observed in fluids, plasmas, optics, and superfluids. Here we report the first experimental…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 H. McCright , I. G. Abel , I. Haber , P. G. O'Shea , B. L. Beaudoin

Dynamic light scattering techniques are routinely used for numerous industrial and research applications, because they can give access to the motion spectrum of micro- and nano-objects, and therefore to particle sizes or visco-elastic…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-22 Guillaume Graciani , John T. King , Francois Amblard

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a relatively new technology for recording stress wave propagation, with promising applications in both engineering and geophysics. DAS's ability to simultaneously collect high spatial resolution data…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-10-27 Michael B. S. Yust , Brady R. Cox , Joseph P. Vantassel , Peter G. Hubbard

This paper provides an analysis of radio wave scattering for frequencies ranging from the microwave to the Terahertz band (e.g., 1 GHz - 1 THz), by studying the scattering power reradiated from various types of materials with different…