The optically induced electron dynamics at a Si(001) surface is studied using a five-wave-mixing setup which measures the diffracted second-harmonic intensity induced by three ultrashort (13 fs) laser pulses. Depending on the time ordering of the pulses, this technique is capable of monitoring the temporal evolution of photoexcited one- or two-photon coherences, or populations. For a particular...

A method is described for the reconstruction of the amplitude and phase of the object exit wave function by phase-plate transmission electron microscopy. The proposed method can be considered as in-line holography and requires three images, taken with different phase shifts between undiffracted and diffracted electrons induced by a suitable phase-shifting device. The proposed method is applicab...

P LANAR detonation waves are often created in narrow rectangular channels to more easily visualize the cellular structure of gaseous detonation waves [1–6]. Typically, these detonation waves are initiated from a single high-energy source requiring several kilojoules of input energy, such as a strong spark or exploding wire that creates a spherically or cylindrically expanding wave. This wave is...

The scattering of the electromagnetic field from a half wave dipole source around a quarterplane can be calculated from the solutions to two scalar problems, one with a soft quarterplane and one with a hard quarterplane. In both cases, a doubly diffracted ray may exist, but only in the case of the hard quarterplane does this present a problem. The paper develops the necessary transition functio...

A noniterative method for retrieving the phase of a wave field from a diffraction intensity measurement in a coherent wave field is proposed. In this method, the phase can be calculated from analytic equations based on the properties of entire functions by use of Fourier transforms. This method requires only a single measurement of the intensity of a diffracted wave through an array filter of r...

6 In this paper, theoretical study is carried out to investigate the general 3D short-crested 7 wave interaction with a concentric two-cylinder system. The interior cylinder is imperme8 able and the exterior cylinder is thin in thickness and porous to protect the interior cylinder. 9 Both cylinders are surface-piercing and bottom mounted. Analytical solution is derived 10 based on the linear po...

We have measured the diffracted neutron scattering intensities from the square magnetic flux lattice in the perovskite superconductor Sr2RuO4, which is thought to exhibit p-wave pairing with a two-component order parameter. The relative intensities of different flux lattice Bragg reflections over a wide range of field and temperature have been shown to be inconsistent with a single component Gi...

We show both theoretically and experimentally that an electromagnetic wave can be totally absorbed by an overdense plasma when a subwavelength diffraction grating is placed in front of the plasma surface. The absorption is due to dissipation of surface plasma waves (plasmons polaritons) that have been resonantly excited by the evanescent component of the diffracted electromagnetic wave. The dev...

To model elastic wave scattering from fatigue cracks in metals, studies were conducted of wave scattering from artificial cracks using ultrasonic spectroscopy. The cracks are of two dimensional planar strips oriented at various angles and embedded in diffusion bonded titanium alloy. The crack is assumed to behave as a Griffith crack and expressions (derived by Achenbach1) to describe diffracted...

In these expository notes we explain the role of geometric optics in wave propagation on domains or manifolds with corners or edges. Both the propagation of singularities, which describes where solutions of the wave equation may be singular, and the diffractive improvement under non-focusing hypotheses, which states that in certain places the diffracted wave is more regular than a priori expect...