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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

Physics of counterpropagating optical beams and spatial optical solitons is reviewed, including the formation of stationary states and spatiotemporal instabilities. First, several models describing the evolution and interactions between…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-27 M. Petrovic , M. Belic , C. Denz , Yu. Kivshar

We consider the electromagnetic waves propagating in the system of coupled waveguides. One of the system components is a standard waveguide fabricated from nonlinear medium having positive refraction and another component is a waveguide…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Elena V. Kazantseva , Andrei I. Maimistov , Sergei S. Ozhenko

We consider relativistic deformations of interfering paraxial waves moving in the transverse direction. Owing to superluminal transverse phase velocities, noticeable deformations of the interference patterns arise when the waves move with…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-23 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Yana V. Izdebskaya , Franco Nori

There exists a class of realizable, active media for which the refractive index cannot be defined as an analytic function in the upper half-plane of complex frequency. The conventional definition of the refractive index based on analyticity…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Johannes Skaar

We demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, that arbitrary scatterers preserving parity-time-duality ($\mathcal{P}\cdot\mathcal{T}\cdot\mathcal{D}$) symmetry inherently produce a backscattered wave whose electric field is the…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-23 Roee Geva , Mário G. Silveirinha , Raphael Kastner

A two-photon emission of a medium with periodically time-dependent refractive index is considered. The emission results from the zero-point fluctuations of the medium. Usually this emission is very weak. However, it can be strongly enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Hizhnyakov

The Poynting vector, energy density and energy velocity of light pulses propagating in anomalous dispersion medium (used in WKD-like experiments) are calculated. Results show that a negative energy density in the medium propagates along…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chao-Guang Huang , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

We propose to go away from the electromagnetic wave description of light and to explain through a purely corpuscular and neutral approach, the phenomenon of the slowing down of light in a transparent medium. The quantum predictions and ours…

Optics · Physics 2007-09-12 Marcel Urban

The diffraction of electromagnetic waves by screens (apertures in screens) with time-varying dimensions is studied. The generalized vector Kirchhoff's representation for this case is obtained. It is also shown that with accuracy up to the…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 V. G. Baryshevsky

Negative reflection and negative refraction are exotic phenomena that can be achieved by platforms such as double-negative metamaterial, hyperbolic metamaterial, and phase-discontinuity metasurface. Recently, natural biaxial van der Waals…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Tan Zhang , Chunqi Zheng , Zhi Ning Chen , Cheng-Wei Qiu

Imposing start from the beginning that the incidence and the reflection of a ray t on an arbitrarily orientated mirror take place at the same point in space and at the same zero time in all involved reference frames in relative motion, we…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-04 Bernhard Rothenstein , Ioan Damian

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

This article investigates some solutions of the time-dependent free Dirac equation. Visualizations of these solutions immediately reveal strange phenomena that are caused by the interference of positive- and negative-energy waves. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernd Thaller

In Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 157404 (2003) Yong Zhang et al. study light propagation through an interface between two identical but differently oriented uniaxial crystals. The authors show that the light refraction at the interface at some…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. P. Bliokh , J. Felsteiner

Theoretical and computational study of reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves with $p$-polarized and normal incidence electric wave amplitude vector on anisotropic, inhomogeneous and linear medium has been done. The medium used…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-09 Andri S. Husein , Roniyus MS , Sri W. Suciyati

Due to the deep sub-wavelength unit cell in metamaterials, the quasi-static approximation is usually employed to describe the propagation. By making pairs of resonators, we highlight that multiple scattering also occurs at this scale and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Simon Yves , Thomas Berthelot , Mathias Fink , Geoffroy Lerosey , Fabrice Lemoult

I compute from first principles the local heating rate $q$ (the amount of electromagnetic energy converted to heat per unit time per unit volume) for electromagnetic waves propagating in magnetically and electrically polarizable media. I…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-07 Vadim A. Markel

It is shown that the T- and P-odd weak interactions yield to the existence of both electric field and magnetic (directed along the electric field) field around an electric charge. Similarly the assotiated magnetic field is directed along…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir G. Baryshevsky

A positively charged, mixed bilayer vesicle in the presence of negatively charged surfaces (for example, colloidal particles) can spontaneously partition into an adhesion zone of definite area, and another zone that repels additional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Helim Aranda-Espinoza , Yi Chen , Nily Dan , TC Lubensky , Philip Nelson , Laurence Ramos , DA Weitz