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The technique of polarized neutron scattering is reviewed with emphasis on applications. Many examples of the usefulness of the method in various fields of physics are given like the determination of spin density maps, measurement of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Roessli , P. Böni

We study an inverse random obstacle scattering problems in $\mathbb{R}^2$ where the scatterer is formulated by a Gaussian process defined on the angular parameter domain. Equipped with a modified covariance function which is mathematically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Zhiqi Sun , Xiang Xu , Yiwen Lin

A previous paper [J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 215302 (2017)] showed that partial wave analysis becomes applicable to nonrelativistic Coulomb scattering if wavepackets are used. The scattering geometry considered was special: that of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Scott E. Hoffmann

We present a physically intuitive matrix approach for wave imaging and characterization in scattering media. The experimental proof-of-concept is performed with ultrasonic waves, but this approach can be applied to any field of wave physics…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 William Lambert , Laura A. Cobus , Mathieu Couade , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

We consider the electromagnetic scattering from a convex polyhedral PEC or PMC obstacle due to a time-harmonic incident plane wave. It is shown that the modulus of the far-field pattern in the backscattering aperture possesses a certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Yuliang Wang

Researchers routinely characterize optical samples by computing the scattering cross-section. However, the experimental determination of this magnitude requires the measurement and integration of the components of the scattered field in all…

The translation of imaging Mueller polarimetry to clinical practice is often hindered by large footprint and relatively slow acquisition speed of the existing instruments. Using polarization-sensitive camera as a detector may reduce…

We derive an analytic formula using the Mueller matrix formalism that parameterizes the nonidealities of a half-wave plate (HWP) made from dielectric antireflection-coated birefringent slabs. This model accounts for frequency-dependent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-12 Sean A. Bryan , Thomas E. Montroy , John E. Ruhl

Polarization-based underwater 3D imaging exploits polarization cues to suppress background scattering, exhibiting distinct advantages in turbid water. Although data-driven polarization-based underwater 3D reconstruction methods show great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Puyun Wang , Kaimin Yu , Huayang He , Xianyu Wu

Shading-based approaches like Photometric Stereo assume that the image formation model can be effectively optimized for the scene normals. However, in murky water this is a very challenging problem. The light from artificial sources is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Chourmouzios Tsiotsios , Maria E. Angelopoulou , Andrew J. Davison , Tae-Kyun Kim

We introduce a novel framework that incorporates multiple scattering for large-scale 3D particle-localization using single-shot in-line holography. Traditional holographic techniques rely on single-scattering models which become inaccurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-19 Waleed Tahir , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Lei Tian

The scattering of polarized light incident from one dielectric medium on its two-dimensional randomly rough interface with a second dielectric medium is studied. A reduced Rayleigh equation for the scattering amplitudes is derived for the…

We report the experimental super-resolution of pairs of point-like fluorescent sources using a modified image inversion interferometer microscope. The technique is inspired by recent developments in the application of quantum parameter…

This work presents a comprehensive examination of the use of information theory for understanding Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images by means of contrast measures that can be used as test statistics. Due to the phenomenon…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-02-11 A. C. Frery , A. D. C. Nascimento , R. J. Cintra

Optical imaging through scattering media is a commonly confronted with the problem of reconstruction of complex objects and optical memory effect. To solve the problem, here, we propose a novel configuration based on the combination of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Meiling Zhou , An Pan , Runze Li , Yansheng Liang , Junwei Min , Tong Peng , Chen Bai , Baoli Yao

This paper presents a technique for reducing speckle in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) imagery using Nonlocal Means and a statistical test based on stochastic divergences. The main objective is to select homogeneous pixels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Leonardo Torres , Sidnei J. S. Sant'Anna , Corina C. Freitas , Alejandro C. Frery

We consider in a two dimensional absorbing and scattering medium, an inverse source problem in the stationary radiative transport, where the source is linearly anisotropic. The medium has an anisotropic scattering property that is neither…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-02 David Omogbhe , Kamran Sadiq

Recently, fluorescence-based optical techniques have emerged as a powerful tool to probe information in the mammalian brain. However, tissue heterogeneities prevent clear imaging of deep neuron bodies due to light scattering. While several…

Multiple light scattering is widely used to characterize dense colloidal systems as well as in deep tissue imaging; experiments are often interpreted via a theory of diffusion of the light intensity within a sample, neglecting the vector…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Maggs , V. Rossetto

Plasmonic metasurfaces enable simultaneous control of the phase, momentum, amplitude and polarisation of light and hence promise great utility in realisation of compact photonic devices. In this paper, we demonstrate a novel chip-scale…