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In this letter, we propose a reduced-order model to bridge the particle transport mechanics and the macroscopic fluid dynamics in the highly scattered regime. A rigorous mathematical derivation and a concise physical interpretation are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Yuan Hu , Chang Liu , Huayun Shen

Scattering media, being ubiquitous in nature and critically important for assessments (e.g., biological tissues), are often considered as nuisance in optics. Here we show that it is not always the case and scattering media could be…

In computed tomography (CT) reconstruction, scattering causes server quality degradation of the reconstructed CT images by introducing streaks and cupping artifacts which reduce the detectability of low contrast objects. Monte Carlo (MC)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Ammar Alsaffar , Steffen Kieß , Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

Bayesian imaging inverse problems in astrophysics and cosmology remain challenging, particularly in low-data regimes, due to complex forward operators and the frequent lack of well-motivated priors for non-Gaussian signals. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sébastien Pierre , Erwan Allys , Pablo Richard , Roman Soletskyi , Alexandros Tsouros

Optical imaging through scattering media is a long-standing challenge. Although many approaches have been developed to focus light or image objects through scattering media, they are either invasive, restricted to stationary or…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-11 Xingchen Zhao , Xiaoyu Nie , Zhenhuan Yi , Tao Peng , Marlan O. Scully

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful technology for rapid volumetric imaging in biomedicine. The bright field imaging approach of conventional OCT systems is based on the detection of directly backscattered light, thereby…

We present a method for accurately computing transition probabilities in one-dimensional photoionization problems. Our approach involves solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation and projecting its solution onto scattering states…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Martín Barlari , Diego G. Arbó , María Silvia Gravielle , Darío M. Mitnik

In my thesis I study mesoscopic corrections on diffuse transport. I first describe the diffuse transport of light, using the scalar approximation and the radiative transfer approach. Next, I focus on the correlations in transmission, I…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. W. van Rossum

We present a quantization scheme for optical systems with absorptive losses, based on an expansion in the complete set of scattering solutions to Maxwell's equations. The natural emergence of both absorptive loss and fluctuations without…

We propose a volumetric formulation for computing the Optimal Transport problem defined on surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$, found in disciplines like optics, computer graphics, and computational methodologies. Instead of directly tackling the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Richard Tsai , Axel G. R. Turnquist

We formulate a new model for transport in stochastic media with long-range spatial correlations where exponential attenuation (controlling the propagation part of the transport) becomes power law. Direct transmission over optical distance…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-13 Anthony B. Davis , Feng Xu

Optical imaging plays a crucial role in advancing science and technology, enabling applications in fields ranging from biomedicine to astronomy. However, imaging through scattering media such as biological tissues, fog, or turbulent…

Finding reliably and efficiently the spectrum of the resonant states of an optical system under varying parameters of the medium surrounding it is a technologically important task, primarily due to various sensing applications.…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-28 S. F. Almousa , E. A. Muljarov

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) uses low-coherence reflectometry to obtain cross-sectional images of inhomogeneous media, such as biological tissue. OCT is particularly useful in the biomedical ea, since the imaging can be performed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Takahisa Mitsui , Kenichiro Aoki

A rigorous method of calculating the electromagnetic field, the scattering matrix, and scattering cross-sections of an arbitrary finite three-dimensional optical system described by its permittivity distribution is presented. The method is…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. V. Lobanov , W. Langbein , E. A. Muljarov

In the present article the classical problem of electromagnetic scattering by a single homogeneous sphere is revisited. Main focus is the study of the scattering behavior as a function of the material contrast and the size parameters for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Dimitrios C. Tzarouchis , Pasi Ylä-Oijala , Ari Sihvola

We present a hybrid imaging method for a challenging travel time tomography problem which includes both unknown medium and unknown scatterers in a bounded domain. The goal is to recover both the medium and the boundary of the scatterers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Hongkai Zhao , Yimin Zhong

Miniaturized optical resonators with spatial dimensions of the order of the wavelength of the trapped light offer prospects for a variety of new applications like quantum processing or construction of meta-materials. Light propagation in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-28 L. Zschiedrich , S. Burger , B. Kettner , F. Schmidt

We develop a scattering-matrix formalism to numerically study the resonant scattering of light on generic assemblies of atoms. Protocols to eliminate the artifacts of the method and extract physical information from the numerical data are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 Francesco Bariani , Davide Sarchi , Iacopo Carusotto

Light scattering by tissue severely limits how deep beneath the surface one can image, and the spatial resolution one can obtain from these images. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is one of the most powerful techniques for imaging deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Yongyi Zhao , Ankit Raghuram , Hyun K. Kim , Andreas H. Hielscher , Jacob T. Robinson , Ashok Veeraraghavan