Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) deliver superior performance over their competitors in the near-infrared regime. However, these detectors have an intrinsic polarization dependence on the incident wave because of their one-dimensional meander structure. In this paper, we propose an approach to eliminate the polarization sensitivity of SNSPDs by using near-field optics t...

We study all-evanescent eigenmodes of a one-dimensional infinite periodic structure with alternating left-handed and right-handed materials that propagate perpendicularly to the surface or guided eigenmodes. Investigation of dispersion properties of such Bloch modes is shown to be crucial for understanding of an efficient radiation energy transport across the periodic multilayer structure. Freq...

Since Georg von Bekesy laid out the place theory of the hearing, researchers have been working to understand the remarkable properties of mammalian hearing. Because access to the cochlea is restricted in live animals, and important aspects of hearing are destroyed in dead ones, models play a key role in interpreting local measurements. Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) models are attractive becau...

Typically, many of the modern buildings have concrete walls constructed from cinder block walls, that have periodic nature in their relative dielectric constant. This periodic nature excites higher-order Floquet harmonic modes at microwave frequencies, which leads to the propagation of scattered waves along with non-specular directions. Periodic structures exhibit different behaviors when illum...

We study the TE polarized electromagnetic surface wave propagating along the interface between materials with positive and negative magnetic permeability. Contrary to the TM polarized surface wave, the TE surface wave exhibits almost no radiation losses when scattered at semi-infinite dielectric interfaces.

Abstract The presence and interplay of continuous cooling heating processes maintaining the corona Sun at observed one million K temperature were recently understood to have crucial effects on dynamics stability magnetoacoustic (MA) waves. These essentially compressive waves perturb coronal thermal equilibrium, leading phenomenon a wave-induced misbalance (TM). Representing an additional natura...

Dear Editor, We would like to thank the authors for the letter regarding with our manuscript entitled ‘‘P-wave dispersion: What we know till now?’’ previously published in your distinguished journal. In that paper, we summarized the measurement methods, current use in different clinical situations, strengths and limitations of the of P-wave dispersion (Pd). Pd is a non-invasive electrocardiogra...

A one dimensional periodic structure with high refractive index contrast can serve as a photonic crystal [1–5]. Among the common theoretical methods for wave motion in such structures, the coupled wave approach offers superior physical insight and gives simple analytical results in limiting cases. Unfortunately, the conventional coupled wave theory of Kogelnik [6–8] fails in the case of high re...