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Quantitative measurements of the vibrational eigenmodes in ultra-high-Q silica microspheres are reported. The modes are efficiently excited via radiation-pressure induced dynamical back-action of light confined in the optical…
A numerical simulation of silica aerogels is performed using diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation of spheres inside a cubic box (with periodic boundary conditions). The volume fraction $c$ is taken to be sufficiently large to get a…
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To design a uniaxial anisotropic metamaterial a layered cylindrical metamaterial is introduced for TE polarization. Unlike to the previous work, which the layers were in radial direction, here the layers are in azimuthal direction.…