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Brewster-reflection of a post-paraxial optical beam at a plane dielectric interface unravels fundamentally significant optical singularity dynamics. We express the simulated field-component profiles of a Brewster-reflected post-paraxial…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-06 Anirban Debnath , Nirmal K. Viswanathan

Polarizers are key components in optical science and technology. Thus, understanding the action of a polarizer beyond oversimplifying approximations is crucial. In this work, we study the interaction of a polarizing interface with an…

The polarization state of light is a key parameter in many imaging systems. For example, it can image mechanical stress and other physical properties that are not seen with conventional imaging, and can also play a central role in quantum…

In this work, we present a theoretical study of the dispersion of linearly polarized light between two dielectric media separated by an anisotropic two-dimensional (2D) material under oblique incidence. Assuming that the 2D material is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Gerardo Gonzalez de la Cruz

The optical Yoneda and Brewster scattering phenomena are studied theoretically based on pertubative solutions of the reduced Rayleigh equations. The Yoneda phenomenon is characterized as an enhancement of the intensity of the diffuse light…

We have experimentally realized Brewster's effect for transverse-electric waves with metamaterials. In dielectric media, Brewster's no-reflection effect arises only for transverse-magnetic waves. However, it has been theoretically predicted…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Tamayama , T. Nakanishi , K. Sugiyama , M. Kitano

The oblique incidence of a Bessel beam on a dielectric slab with refractive index n1 surrounded by a medium of a refractive index n>n1 may be studied simply by expanding the Bessel beam into a set of plane waves forming the same angle with…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Mugnai

We provide a detailed discussion on the electromagnetic modeling and classification of polarization converting bianisotropic metasurfaces. To do so, we first present a general approach to compute the scattering response of such…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-15 Karim Achouri , Olivier J. F. Martin

The geometric representation at a fixed frequency of the wavevector (or dispersion) surface $\omega(\vec k)$ for lossless, homogeneous dielectric--magnetic uniaxial materials is explored, when the elements of the relative permittivity and…

An approach to visualize the accessible reciprocal space accounting the goniometer angles limitation and the resolution element in the reciprocal space is presented. The shapes of the accessible reciprocal space region for coplanar and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-01 T. Ulyanenkova , A. Zhylik , A. Benediktovitch , A. Ulyanenkov

We study the direction- and wavelength-dependent polarization anisotropy in light scattering at the air-photonic crystal interface as a function of angle of incidence for TE and TM polarized light. This is done using optical reflectivity…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-06 Priya , Rajesh V. Nair

Transmission of a normally incident plane wave through a metasurface with bicontrollable subwavelength scattering elements was simulated using a commercial software. Some pixels comprising the $H-shaped scattering elements were made of a…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Francesco Chiadini , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Surface waves supported by structured metallic surfaces, i.e. metasurfaces, have drawn wide attention recently. They are promising for various applications ranging from integrated photonic circuits to imaging and bio-sensing in various…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Oubo You , Wenlong Gao , Yachao Liu , Yuanxiang Jiang , Shuang Zhang

We consider in a simple and general way elastic waves in isotropic and anisotropic media, their polarization, speeds, reflection from interfaces with mode conversion, and surface waves. Reflection of quasi transverse waves in anisotropic…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. K. Ignatovich , L. T. N. Phan

The standard Maxwell formulation of the problem of polarized dielectrics suffers from a number of difficulties, both conceptual and practical. These difficulties are particularly significant in the case of liquid interfaces, where the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Dmitry V. Matyushov

In some anisotropic bulk media (for example, biaxial weakly absorbing crystals) there are special directions along which the plane wave field distribution has a singular profile of the form $\propto (\mathbf{n} \mathbf{r}) \exp(i q…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 K. Yu. Golenitskii , N. S. Averkiev

Radio polarization measurements of pulsed emission from pulsars offer a valuable insight into the basic geometry of the neutron star: inclination angle between the magnetic and rotation axis and inclination of the line of sight. So far, all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 J. Pétri

A general algorithm for calculating the reflection and refraction of nonuniform plane waves from an arbitrarily oriented and charged planar interface between two lossy isotropic media is proposed based on the decomposition of the complex…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Zhili Lin

A new analytical approach to description of electromagnetic waves in nonmagnetic anisotropic media is presented. Amplitudes of their reflection and refraction at interfaces and also reflection and transmission of plane parallel plates are…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Filipp V. Ignatovich , Vladimir K. Ignatovich

One can often see caustic by reflection in nature, but it is rather hard to understand the way of how caustic arise and which geometric properties of a mirror surface define the geometry of the caustic. The caustic by reflection has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Alexander Yampolsky , Oleksandr Fursenko