We present a method for dehazing images. A dark envelope image is derived with the bilateral minimum filter and a bright envelope is derived with the bilateral maximum filter. The ambient light and transmission of the scene are estimated from these two envelope images. An image without haze is reconstructed from the estimated ambient light and transmission.

Enhanced optical transmission (EOT) through a single aperture is usually achieved by exciting surface plasmon polaritons with periodic grooves. Surface plasmon polaritons are only excited by p-polarized incident light, i.e. with the electric field perpendicular to the direction of the grooves. The present study experimentally investigates EOT for s-polarized light. A subwavelength slit surround...

We theoretically study light propagation through sub-wavelength apertures on a silver substrate filled with GaAs, in the enhanced transmission regime. We predict enhanced conversion efficiencies even under high absorption conditions. ©2010 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (240.6680) Surface Plasmon, (120.7000) Transmission, (240.3695) Linear and nonlinear light scattering from surfaces, (...

A method for measurement and visualization of the complex transmission coefficient of 2-D microobjects is proposed. The method is based on calculation of the transmission coefficient from the diffraction pattern and the illumination aperture function for monochromatic light. A phase-stepping method was used for diffracted light phase determination.

We assert that the physics underlying the extraordinary light transmission (reflection) in nanostructured materials can be understood from rather general principles based on the formal scattering theory developed in quantum mechanics. The Maxwell equations in passive (dispersive and absorptive) linear media are written in the form of the Schrödinger equation to which the quantum mechanical reso...

Current dehazing approaches are often hindered when scenes contain bright objects which can cause veiling light and transmission estimation methods to fail. This paper introduces a single image dehazing approach for underwater images with novel veiling light and transmission estimation steps which deal with issues arising from bright objects. We use features to hierarchically rank regions of an...

By using antitrace map method, we investigate the light transmission for a generalized Fibonacci multilayers. Analytical results are obtained for transmission coefficients in some special cases. We find that the transmission coefficients possess two-cycle property or six-cycle property. The cycle properties of the trace and antitrace are also obtained. PACS numbers: 61.44.Br, 05.45.-a, 42.25.Dd...