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As the electromagnetic spectrum becomes more congested and the environments in which we need to operate become more complicated, control over the environment itself becomes necessary to ensure the integrity of wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Benjamin W. Frazier , Steven M. Anlage

We present a framework for achieving broadband perfect wave transmission in complex systems by optimizing symmetric disordered media via inverse design. We show that leveraging symmetry of complex media reduces the optimization's complexity…

From the earth's crust to the human brain, remitted waves are used for sensing and imaging in a diverse range of diffusive media. Separating the source and detector increases the penetration depth of remitted light, yet rapidly decreases…

The interaction between electromagnetic waves and objects is strongly affected by the shape and material composition of the latter. Artificially created materials, formed by a subwavelength structuring of their unit cells, namely…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Dmitry Filonov , Andrey Shmidt , Amir Boag , Pavel Ginzburg

Achieving high-precision light manipulation is crucial for delivering information through complex media with high fidelity. However, existing spatial light modulation devices face a fundamental tradeoff between speed and accuracy. Digital…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-16 Li-Yu Yu , Sixian You

Dynamic modulation of material properties in space and time enables powerful control over wave propagation, yet existing theories largely rely on idealized, nondispersive models. In realistic media, frequency dispersion can strongly reshape…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

Ambient backscatter communication system is an emerging and promising low-energy technology for Internet of Things. In such system, a device named tag, sends a binary message to a reader by backscattering a radio frequency signal generated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative methods for image synthesis, yet their potential as general-purpose feature encoders remains underexplored. Trained for denoising and generation without labels, they can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 A. Nieto Juscafresa , Á. Mazcuñán Herreros , J. Sullivan

A fundamental challenge in physics is controlling the propagation of waves in disordered media despite strong scattering from inhomogeneities. Spatial light modulators enable one to synthesize (shape) the incident wavefront, optimizing the…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-15 Chia Wei Hsu , Seng Fatt Liew , Arthur Goetschy , Hui Cao , A. Douglas Stone

We present a conditional diffusion model for electromagnetic inverse design that generates structured media geometries directly from target differential scattering cross-section profiles, bypassing expensive iterative optimization. Our 1D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mikhail Tsukerman , Konstantin Grotov , Pavel Ginzburg

We investigate the reflection and refraction behaviors of electromagnetic waves at the interface between an isotropic material and the anisotropic medium with a unique dispersion relation. We show that the refraction angle of whether phase…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Weixing Shu , Hailu Luo , Fei Li , Zhongzhou Ren

The focus of this paper is on spatial precoding in correlated multi-antenna channels, where the number of independent data-streams is adapted to trade-off the data-rate with the transmitter complexity. Towards the goal of a low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Vasanthan Raghavan , Akbar Sayeed , Venu Veeravalli

Wireless jamming identification, which detects and classifies electromagnetic jamming from non-cooperative devices, is crucial for emerging low-altitude wireless networks consisting of many drone terminals that are highly susceptible to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Pengyu Wang , Zhaocheng Wang , Tianqi Mao , Weijie Yuan , Haijun Zhang , George K. Karagiannidis

In this work, we designed and studied a feasible dual-layer binary metagrating, which can realize controllable asymmetric transmission and beam splitting with nearly perfect performance. Owing to ingenious geometry configuration, only one…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Yangyang Fu , Jiaqi Tao , Ailing Song , Youwen Liu , Yadong Xu

A single-order transmission diffraction grating based on dispersion engineered all-dielectric metasurfaces is proposed and its wavelength discriminating properties have been theoretically described and confirmed using numerical simulations.…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Shulabh Gupta

Consider a plane monochromatic wave incident on a semi-infinite periodic structure. What happens if the normal component of the transmitted wave group velocity vanishes? At first sight, zero normal component of the transmitted wave group…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Figotin , I. Vitebskiy

Scattering has usually be considered as detrimental for optical focusing or imaging. Recently, more and more research has shown that strongly scattering materials can be utilized to focus coherent light by controlling or shaping the…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-24 Yanqi Qiao , Xianfeng Chen , Yajun Peng , Yuanlin Zheng

Metagrating is a new concept for wavefront manipulation that, unlike phase gradient metasurfaces, does not suffer from low efficiency and also has a less complicated fabrication process. In this paper, a compound metallic grating (a…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-24 Mahdi Rahmanzadeh , Amin Khavasi

In recent times, we experimentally realized a quite efficient modeling of the shape of diffraction-resistant optical beams; thus generating for the first time the so-called Frozen Waves (FW), whose longitudinal intensity pattern can be…

A linear scattering problem for which incoming and outgoing waves are restricted to a finite number of radiation channels can be precisely described by a frequency-dependent scattering matrix. The entries of the scattering matrix, as…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Hongyao Wu , Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu