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We continue the study of optimal chordal packings, with emphasis on packing subspaces of dimension greater than one. Following a principle outlined in a previous work, where the authors use maximal affine block designs and maximal sets of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Peter G. Casazza , John I. Haas , Joshua Stueck , Tin T. Tran

We analyze coherent wave transport in a new physical setting associated with multimode wave systems where reflection is completely suppressed and mode-dependent losses together with mode-mixing are dictating the wave propagation. An…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-24 P. Chiarawongse , H. Li , W. Xiong , C. W. Hsu , H. Cao , T. Kottos

Coverage control algorithms have traditionally focused on static target densities, where agents are deployed to optimally cover a fixed spatial distribution. However, many applications involve time-varying densities, including environmental…

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We investigate the localization of waves in aperiodic structures that manifest the characteristic multiscale complexity of certain arithmetic functions with a central role in number theory. In particular, we study the eigenspectra and wave…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-12 Luca Dal Negro , Yilin Zhu , Yuyao Chen , Marcus Prado , Felipe A. Pinheiro

The use of individual multimode optical fibers in endoscopy applications has the potential to provide highly miniaturized and noninvasive probes for microscopy and optical micromanipulation. A few different strategies have been proposed…

One of the fundamental limitations to high bit rate, long distance, telecommunication in optical fibers is Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD). Here we introduce a conceptually new method to reduce PMD in optical fibers by carrying out…

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We perform extended numerical studies to maximize the overall photon coupling efficiency of fiber-coupled quantum dot single-photon sources emitting in the near-infrared and telecom regime. Using the finite element method, we optimize the…

A prime objective of modeling optical fibers is capturing mode confinement losses correctly. This paper demonstrates that specific modeling choices, especially regarding the outer fiber cladding regions and the placement of the…

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We derive upper bounds to free-space concentration of electromagnetic waves, mapping out the limits to maximum intensity for any spot size and optical beam-shaping device. For sub-diffraction-limited optical beams, our bounds suggest the…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-08 Hyungki Shim , Haejun Chung , Owen D. Miller

When an optical pulse is focused into a multimode waveguide or fiber, the energy is divided among the available guided modes. Consequently, the initially localized intensity spreads transversely, the spatial profile undergoes rapid…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-07 Abbas Shiri , Kenneth L. Schepler , Ayman F. Abouraddy

In this work, we consider a method of searching of the direction of a wireless network development (the places of new access points or base stations etc.) optimized with criteria of coverage of important territories and minimum cost of…

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In this paper, we propose a model reduction method for solving multiscale elliptic PDEs with random coefficients in the multiquery setting using an optimization approach. The optimization approach enables us to construct a set of localized…

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This paper is concerned with developing efficient numerical methods for acoustic wave scattering in random media which can be expressed as random perturbations of homogeneous media. We first analyze the random Helmholtz problem by deriving…

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We have calculated the maximally-localized Wannier functions of MnO in its antiferromagnetic (AFM) rhombohedral unit cell, which contains two formula units. Electron Bloch functions are obtained with the linearized augmented plane-wave…

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We propose a method to optimally position a sensor system, which consists of multiple sensors, each has limited range and viewing angle, and they may fail with a certain failure rate. The goal is to find the optimal locations as well as the…

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To facilitate widespread adoption of automated engineering design techniques, existing methods must become more efficient and generalizable. In the field of topology optimization, this requires the coupling of modern optimization methods…

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We introduce a theoretical framework which is suitable for the description of all spatial and time-multiplexed periodic single-photon sources realized or proposed thus far. Our model takes into account all possibly relevant loss mechanisms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Peter Adam , Matyas Mechler , Imre Santa , Mátyás Koniorczyk

We introduce a Wannier-type formulation of periodic local vibrational mode theory that yields real-space-localized vibrational modes associated with individual internal coordinates in crystalline solids. These modes are constructed as…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-12 Mateusz Mojsak , Elfi Kraka , Adam A. L. Michalchuk

In this paper, we develop a local Fourier analysis of multigrid methods based on block-structured relaxation schemes for stable and stabilized mixed finite-element discretizations of the Stokes equations, to analyze their convergence…

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