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Asymptotic solution to many-body wave scattering problem is given in the case of many small scatterers. The small scatterers can be particles whose physical properties are described by the boundary impedances, or they can be small…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 A. G. Ramm

We investigate a time harmonic acoustic scattering problem by a penetrable inclusion with compact support embedded in the free space. We consider cases where an observer can produce incident plane waves and measure the far field pattern of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia , Lucas Chesnel , Sergei A. Nazarov

We consider several intriguingly connected topics in the theory of wave propagation: geometrical characterizations of radiationless sources, non-radiating incident waves, interior transmission eigenfunctions, and their applications to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Emilia Blåsten , Hongyu Liu

An invisibility device should guide light around an object as if nothing were there, regardless where the light comes from. Ideal invisibility devices are impossible due to the wave nature of light. This paper develops a general recipe for…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulf Leonhardt

We consider the propagation of acoustic waves in a waveguide containing a penetrable dissipative inclusion. We prove that as soon as the dissipation, characterized by some coefficient $\eta$, is non zero, the scattering solutions are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Lucas Chesnel , Jérémy Heleine , Sergei A. Nazarov , Jari Taskinen

We consider a polyhedron with zero classical resistance, i.e., a polyhedron invisible to an observer viewing only the paths of geometrical optics rays. The corresponding problem of scattering of plane waves by the polyhedron is studied. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 E. Lakshtanov , B. D. Sleeman , B. Vainberg

This paper is concerned with the invisibility cloaking in acoustic wave scattering from a new perspective. We are especially interested in achieving the invisibility cloaking by completely regular and isotropic mediums. It is shown that an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Xia Ji , Hongyu Liu

While controlling particle diffusion in a confined geometry is a popular approach taken by both natural and artificial systems, it has not been widely adopted for controlling light transport in random media, where wave interference effects…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-06 Raktim Sarma , Alexey Yamilov , Seng Fatt Liew , Mikhael Guy , Hui Cao

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

A flexible control of wave scattering in complex media is of relevance in different areas of classical and quantum physics. Recently, a great interest has been devoted to scattering engineering in non-Hermitian systems, with the prediction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Stefano Longhi , Ermanno Pinotti

This paper is concerned with the reconstruction of the shape of an acoustic obstacle. Based on the use of the tapered waves with very narrow widths illuminating the obstacle, the boundary of the obstacle is reconstructed by a direct imaging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Deyue Zhang , Mengjiao Bai , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo

We consider the scattering of linear waves in two dimensions by a rectangular region at the junction of four waveguides. A solution to the frequency domain problem is obtained by exploiting reflective symmetry to reduce the full problem to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Afnan A. Aldosri , Michael H. Meylan , Ben Wilks

The dispersion curves of (elastic) waveguides frequently exhibit crossings and osculations (also known as veering, repulsion, or avoided crossing). Osculations are regions in the dispersion diagram where curves approach each other…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Hauke Gravenkamp , Bor Plestenjak , Daniel A. Kiefer

Unidirectional nonreciprocal transport is at the heart of many fundamental problems and applications in both science and technology. Here we study the novel design of wave diode devices by engineering asymmetric shapes of nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Nianbei Li , Jie Ren

We consider the problem of determining the shape and location of an unknown penetrable object in a perfectly conducting electromagnetic waveguide. The inverse problem is posed in the frequency domain and uses multistatic data in the near…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peter Monk , Virginia Selgas , Fan Yang

In this paper we study the problem of wave propagation in a 3-D optical fiber. The goal is to obtain a solution for the time-harmonic field caused by a source in a cylindrically symmetric waveguide. The geometry of the problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Oleg Alexandrov , Giulio Ciraolo

Rendering objects invisible to impinging acoustic waves (cloaking) and creating acoustic illusions (holography) has been attempted using active and passive approaches. While passive methods are applicable only to narrow frequency bands,…

We consider the problem of unique identification of dielectric coefficients for gratings and sound speeds for wave guides from scattering data. We prove that the "propagating modes" given for all frequencies uniquely determine these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Gregory Eskin , James Ralston , Masahiro Yamamoto

We address two-dimensional waveguide arrays where light tunneling into neighboring waveguides may be effectively suppressed by out-of-phase harmonic modulation of the refractive index in neighboring waveguides at suitable frequencies.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. V. Kartashov , A. Szameit , V. A. Vysloukh , L. Torner

We propose and analyse metasurface-bound invisible (non-scattering) partially open cavities where the inside field distribution can be engineered. It is demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally that the cavities exhibit…