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Perfect control of reflection and refraction using spatially dispersive metasurfaces Open
[EN] \nNonuniform metasurfaces (electrically thin composite layers) can be used for shaping refracted and reflected electromagnetic waves. However, known design approaches based on the generalized refraction and reflection laws do not allo…
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Generating in-Plane Orientational Order in Multilayer Films Prepared by Spray-Assisted Layer-by-Layer Assembly Open
We present a simple yet efficient method for orienting cellulose nanofibrils in layer-by-layer assembled films through spray-assisted alignment. While spraying at 90° against a receiving surface produces films with homogeneous in-plane ori…
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Laser-induced periodic surface structures: Arbitrary angles of incidence and polarization states Open
We demonstrate that the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method can be used to study the formation of laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSSs) under oblique incidence and arbitrary polarization states. The inhomogeneous energ…
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Grating-coupled surface plasmon resonance on bulk stainless steel Open
Grating-coupled surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is demonstrated with one-dimensional gratings fabricated on the surface of bulk stainless steel using imprinting combined with electrochemical etching. The extent of light coupling and the wa…
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Multiple scattering in grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction: impact on lattice-constant determination in thin films Open
Dynamical scattering effects are observed in grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction experiments using an organic thin film of 2,2′:6′,2′′-ternaphthalene grown on oxidized silicon as substrate. Here, a splitting of all Bragg peaks in the out-o…
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Absorption of electromagnetic plane waves by rotating black holes Open
We study the absorption of monochromatic electromagnetic plane waves impinging upon a Kerr black hole, in the general case that the direction of incidence is not aligned with the black hole spin axis. We present numerical results that are …
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Reflection of plane waves from a micropolar thermoelastic solid half-space with impedance boundary conditions Open
In this paper, the governing equations of linear, isotropic, homogeneous and generalized micropolar thermoelasticity are specialized in a plane. The governing equations are solved for plane harmonic wave solutions. Two separate velocity eq…
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Effect of impedance on the reflection of plane waves in a rotating magneto-thermoelastic solid half-space with diffusion Open
This research article deals with the propagation of plane waves in a rotating magneto-thermoelastic half-space with diffusion in the context of Lord–Shulman theory of thermoelasticity. The governing equations are formulated for a specializ…
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Extraordinary reflection and refraction from natural hyperbolic materials Open
The reflection and refraction were theoretically investigated for a linearly-polarized wave incident upon the surface of a naturally hyperbolic material. We proposed that this material is uniaxial and possesses two hyperbolic-frequency ban…
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Performance characteristics of 4-port in-plane and out-of-plane in-line metasurface polarimeters Open
In-line polarimeters perform nonterminating measurements of the polarization state of light by sampling only a small part of the total light intensity. In-line polarimeters are used in applications such as polarization state generators and…
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Propagation of plane waves in a rotating transversely isotropic two temperature generalized thermoelastic solid half-space with voids Open
The paper is concerned with the propagation of plane waves in a transversely isotropic two temperature generalized thermoelastic solid half-space with voids and rotation. The governing equations are modified in the context of Lord and Shul…
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A novel expression of the spherical-wave reflection coefficient at a plane interface Open
The spherical-wave reflection coefficient (SRC) describes the reflection strength when seismic waves emanating from a point source impinge on an interface. In this study, the SRC at a plane interface between two infinite half-spaces is inv…
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Photon helicity driven surface photocurrent in CuSe films Open
We report excitation of the spin-polarized currents in CuSe nanocrystalline films and demonstrate that the inversion of the excitation photon helicity reverses the direction of the photocurrent propagating perpendicular to the plane of inc…
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Reflection, transmission and surface susceptibility tensor in\n two-dimensional materials Open
In a recent experiment, the out-of-plane surface susceptibility of a\nsingle-layer two-dimensional atom crystal in the visible spectrum has been\nmeasured. This susceptibility gives a measurable contribution to the\nreflectivity of two-dim…
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Fresnel Refraction and Diffraction of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Conducting Sheets Open
The propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) along two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, is a complex phenomenon linking the microscale electronic properties to macroscale optical properties. Complex geometries increase…
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Depolarized Scattering of Rough Surface With Dielectric Inhomogeneity and Spatial Anisotropy Open
This article presents a new index, polarizationconversion ratio (PCR) to characterize depolarized bistatic scattering from rough surfaces with dielectric inhomogeneity and spatial anisotropy.We then investigate the dependence of PCR on bot…
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Transverse magneto-optic Kerr effect and Imbert–Fedorov shift upon light reflection from a magnetic/non-magnetic bilayer: impact of misfit strain Open
International audience; We present a theoretical study of the influence of the misfit strain on the transverse magnetoopticKerr effect (TMOKE) and the transverse shift (Imbert–Fedorov effect) experienced by alight beam reflected from the s…
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Measurement of Giant Spin Splitting of Reflected Gaussian Beams Open
We investigate theoretically and experimentally the beam shifts of a Gaussian beam reflected by an air-glass interface at Brewster incidence. For a linearly polarized incident beam, the reflected beam will undergo a spatial spin splitting …
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Guided-mode waves structure of electric and magnetic dipole resonances in a metamaterial slab Open
The electric dipole (ED) and magnetic dipole (MD) resonances in a slab of dielectric nanostructures induced by oblique light incidence were analyzed in terms of guided-mode wave theory for transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (…
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High-quality-factor planar optical cavities with laterally stopped, slowed, or reversed light Open
In a planar optical cavity, the resonance frequencies increase as a function of in-plane wavevector according to a standard textbook formula. This has well-known consequences in many different areas of optics, from the shifts of etalon pea…
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Angle- and polarization-dependent spectral characteristics of circular grating filters Open
We design and implement one type of guided mode resonance (GMR) circular grating filters (CGFs) on an HfO2-on-silicon platform. Taking advantage of an angle-resolved micro-reflection measurement system, we achieve their incident angle- and…
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Reflection of plane waves at the free surface of fiber-reinforced orthotropic thermoelastic rotating half-space with three-phase-lag model Open
The present article is concerned with the propagation of plane waves in a homogeneous, fiber-reinforced orthotropic thermoelastic rotating half-space in the context of three-phase-lag model. There exist three coupled waves, namely, quasi-l…
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Unveiling optical in-plane anisotropy of 2D materials from oblique incidence of light Open
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 c…
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Left/right asymmetry in reflection and transmission by a planar anisotropic dielectric slab with topologically insulating surface states Open
The reflection and transmission of plane waves by a homogeneous anisotropic dielectric slab—as represented by a columnar thin film—with topologically insulating surface states was theoretically investigated. Copolarized and cross-polarized…
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A tunable electromagnetic metagrating Open
We explore electromagnetic (EM) wave incidence upon gratings of reconfigurable metamaterial cylinders, which collectively act as a metagrating, to identify their potential as reconfigurable subwavelength surfaces. The metacylinders are cre…
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Multiple scattering of polarized light in uniaxial turbid media with arbitrarily oriented linear birefringence Open
The effective scattering Mueller matrices obtained by the simulation were simplified to the reduced matrices and factorized using the Lu–Chipman polar decomposition, which afforded the polarization parameters in two dimensions. In general,…
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Reflection by and transmission through an ENZ interface Open
We have studied the reflection and transmission of traveling and evanescent plane waves, incident upon an ENZ material. The Fresnel reflection and transmission coefficients were obtained in the ENZ limit. For a p polarized incident wave, t…
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A Wavefront Division Polarimeter for the Measurements of Solute Concentrations in Solutions Open
Polarimeters are useful instruments that measure concentrations of optically active substances in a given solution. The conventional polarimetric principle consists of measuring the rotation angle of linearly polarized light. Here, we pres…
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Spin-splitting in a reflective beam off an antiferromagnetic surface Open
A linearly-polarized radiation can be considered as the superposition of two circularly-polarized components with the same propagating direction and opposite spins. We investigated the splitting between the two spin-components in the refle…
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Reflection and transmission at the boundary surface of modified couple stress thermoelastic media Open
In this paper the reflection and transmission at a plane interface in modified couple stress generalized thermoelastic solid half spaces in the context of Loard-Shulman (LS) and Green-Lindsay (GL) theories in welded contact are investigate…