We have developed an MM-PO hybrid solver designed to deliver reasonable accuracy inexpensively in terms of both CPU-time and memory demands. The solver is based on an iterative block Gauss-Seidel process to avoid unnecessary storage and matrix computations, and can be used to solve the radiation and scattering problems for both disjunct and connected regions. It supports thin wires and dielectr...

Department of Chemistry and Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India, Optics Group, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560 080, India, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008, India, and Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems, A6 Peenya Industrial Estate, Banga...

Journal of Modern Optics Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713191304 Uncertainty relations for the realization of macroscopic quantum superpositions and EPR paradoxes E. G. Cavalcanti a; M. D. Reid a a ARC Centre for Excellence for Atom-Optics, School of Physical Sciences, The University of Queen...

We investigate the implementation of binary projective measurements with linear optics. This problem can be viewed as a single-shot discrimination of two orthogonal pure quantum states. We show that any two orthogonal states can be perfectly discriminated using only linear optics, photon counting, coherent ancillary states, and feedforward. The statement holds in the asymptotic limit of a large...

Machine vision can greatly benefit from the development of accurate reflectance models. There are two approaches to the study of reflection: physical and geometrical optics. While geometrical models may be construed as mere approximations to physical models, they possess simpler mathematical forms that often render them more usable than physical models. However, geometrical models are applicabl...