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The time-frequency integrals and the two-dimensional stationary phase method are applied to study the electromagnetic waves radiated by moving modulated sources in dispersive media. We show that such unified approach leads to explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Gennadiy Burlak , Vladimir Rabinovich

We present an effective medium description of time-modulated dielectric media. By taking the averaged fields over one modulation period, the relationship between them is derived, defining therefore the different constitutive parameters. In…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-04 Dani Torrent

An incident wave at a temporal interface, created by an abrupt change in system parameters, generates time-refracted and time-reflected waves. We find topological characteristics associated with the temporal interface that separates…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-25 Huisheng Xu , Zhaohui Dong , Luqi Yuan , Liang Jin

This article is concerned with the time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a generic inhomogeneous medium. It is shown that if there is a right corner on the support of the medium, then it scatters every pair of incident EM…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Hongyu Liu , Jingni Xiao

Time-reflection occurs when a wave is propagating in a medium undergoing a large and abrupt change in its properties: the original wave splits into a time-refracted wave and a time-reflected wave, each displaying different features. The…

We show that the powerful framework of transformation optics may be exploited for engineering the nonlocal response of artificial electromagnetic materials. Relying on the form-invariant properties of coordinate-transformed Maxwell's…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi , Andrea Alu' , Nader Engheta

We present a unified elucidation for the role temporal coherence properties of x-rays in surface x-ray standing wave analysis, under total external reflection condition. Analytical formulas have been derived that provide a direct relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-16 M K Tiwari , Gangadhar Das

Wave phenomena in bianisotropic media have been broadly scrutinized in classical electrodynamics, as these media offer additional degrees of freedom to engineer electromagnetic waves. However, all investigations concerning such systems have…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-02 M. S. Mirmoosa , M. H. Mostafa , A. Norrman , S. A. Tretyakov

Space-time (ST) wave packets are a class of pulsed optical beams whose spatio-temporal spectral structure results in propagation invariance, tunable group velocity, and fascinating refractive phenomena. Here, we investigate the refraction…

The general reflection and refraction laws at the metasurface with the abrupt phase shift were derived by two different methods of Fermat's principle and the boundary conditions respectively. It is found that one or two critical angles for…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-16 Zhaona Wang , Yanyan Sun , Lu Han , Dahe Liu

Planar, disordered assemblies of small particles incorporated in layered media -- sometimes called ``disordered metasurfaces'' in the recent literature -- are becoming widespread in optics and photonics. Their ability to scatter light with…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-08 Kevin Vynck , Armel Pitelet , Louis Bellando , Philippe Lalanne

The study of wave propagation and scattering in time-dependent materials is a rapidly growing field of research. Whereas for 1D applications there is a simple relation between the wave equations for space-dependent and time-dependent…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Kees Wapenaar

This paper investigates inverse source problems for time-dependent electromagnetic waves governed by Maxwell's equations. After applying the Fourier transform with respect to time, the problem leads to a frequency-domain electromagnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Fenglin Sun , Hongxia Guo

We present an experimental study of time refraction of spin waves propagating in microscopic waveguides under the influence of time-varying magnetic fields. Using space- and time-resolved Brillouin light scattering microscopy, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 K. Schultheiss , N. Sato , P. Matthies , L. Körber , K. Wagner , T. Hula , O. Gladii , J. E. Pearson , A. Hoffmann , M. Helm , J. Fassbender , H. Schultheiss

We consider time-harmonic electromagnetic wave equations in composites of a dispersive material surrounded by a classical material. In certain frequency ranges this leads to sign-changing permittivity and/or permeability. Previously meshing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Martin Halla

The form of Maxwell's theory is well known in the framework of general relativity, a fact that is related to the applicability of the principle of equivalence to electromagnetic phenomena. We pose the question whether this form changes if…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-15 Roland A. Puntigam , Claus Lämmerzahl , Friedrich W. Hehl

Time-reflection is a uniform inversion of the temporal evolution of a signal, which arises when an abrupt change in the properties of the host material occurs uniformly in space. At such a time-interface, a portion of the input signal is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hady Moussa , Gengyu Xu , Shixiong Yin , Emanuele Galiffi , Younes Radi , Andrea Alù

In order to settle the problem of the "Post constraint" in material media, we consider the propagation of a plane electromagnetic wave in a medium with a piecewise constant axion field. Although a constant axion field does not affect the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri N. Obukhov , Friedrich W. Hehl

We consider wave propagation through a 1D periodic network of slowly time-modulated interfaces. Each interface is modelled by time-dependent spring-mass jump conditions, where mass and rigidity interface parameters are modulated in time.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Michaël Darche , Raphaël Assier , Sébastien Guenneau , Bruno Lombard , Marie Touboul

The theoretical formulation of x-ray resonant magnetic scattering from rough surfaces and interfaces is given for the diffuse (off-specular) scattering, and general expressions are derived in both the Born approximation (BA) and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 D. R. Lee , C. S. Nelson , J. C. Lang , C. T. Venkataraman , G. Srajer , R. M. Osgood , S. K. Sinha