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Close Solution to Acoustic Illusion in Layered Media
AbstractA close solution to acoustic illusion, caused by layered acoustical concentrator, has been investigated in-depth theoretical analysis using...
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Controlling electromagnetic surface waves with conformal transformation optics
The application of transformation optics to the development of intriguing electromagnetic devices can produce weakly anisotropic or isotropic media...
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Shrinking-shifting and amplifying-shifting device using transformation optics
Based on transformation optics (TO), this paper uses geometric divisions and linear coordinate transformations to design “shrinking-shifting—and...
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A conformal map** approach to broadband nonlinear optics on chip
Integrated nonlinear optical devices play an important role in modern optical communications; however, conventional on-chip optical devices with...
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Broadband continuous supersymmetric transformation: a new paradigm for transformation optics
Transformation optics has formulated a versatile framework to mold the flow of light and tailor its spatial characteristics at will. Despite its huge...
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Curved anisotropic polaritons
The curved surface has emerged as new research platform for understanding and manipulating novel electromagnetic behaviors in complex media. In this...
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The Visual Perception
Today, the science of visual perception is in a similar phase as celestial mechanics was in Kepler’s time: at that time, a large number of empirical...
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Oblique incident achromatic cloaking based on all-dielectric multilayer frame metasurfaces
Based on the generalized Snell’s law, an achromatic cloaking device with oblique incidence based on multilayer frame metasurfaces is proposed. The...
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A survey on photonics technologies for radar applications
Photonics is a fast and gallo** technology related to both microwave and optics science. Photonics is a very vast and distinctive field in recent...
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Bound vortex light in an emulated topological defect in photonic lattices
Topology have prevailed in a variety of branches of physics. And topological defects in cosmology are speculated akin to dislocation or disclination...
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Diffusion metamaterials
Diffusion and wave propagation are both fundamental transport mechanisms, but they have intrinsically different dynamics, governing equations, and...
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Light People: Professor Che Ting Chan, curiosity drives to create the impossibilities
“When something is said to be impossible, there are two points for researchers to initially clarify: whether it really is forbidden by the laws of...
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Huygens’ Principle
Christiaan Huygens is best known for devising the principle that bears his name, namely Huygens’ principle (or Huygens’ construction). Huygens’...
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Quantum Optical Tests of the Foundations of Physics
Quantum mechanics began with the solution of the problem of blackbody radiation by Planck's quantum hypothesis: in the interaction of light with...
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Tailoring chaotic motion of microcavity photons in ray and wave dynamics by tuning the curvature of space
Microcavity photon dynamics in curved space is an emerging interesting area at the crossing point of nanophotonics, chaotic science, and...
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Geometrical Optics
For many applications the wave nature of light is of minor importance. The main interest is the propagation direction of light and its alterations by...
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From Myth to Mathematics
Plato’sPlato claim that making IrisIris, messenger of the gods the daughter of ThaumasThaumas, Greek god is an acknowledgement that the rainbow is...
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Designing nonlinear thermal devices and metamaterials under the Fourier law: A route to nonlinear thermotics
Nonlinear heat transfer can be exploited to reveal novel transport phenomena and thus enhance people’s ability to manipulate heat flux at will....
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What is Mathesis Universalis?
There are several interpretations of what mathesis universalis could have been. Some interpreters claim that mathesis universalis is a universal...