The use of microwave imaging is becoming more prevalent for detection of interior hidden defects in manufactured and packaged materials. In applications for detection of hidden moisture, microwave tomography can be used to image the material and then perform an inverse calculation to derive an estimate of the variability of the hidden material, such internal moisture, thereby alerting personnel...

Ocular reflectors enhance eye sensitivity in dim light, but can produce reflected eyeshine when illuminated. Most teleost fish occlude their reflectors during the day. The opposite is observed in cryptic sit-and-wait predators such as scorpionfish and toadfish, where reflectors are occluded at night and exposed during the day. This results in daytime eyeshine, proposed to enhance pupil camoufla...

In bats it has been shown that they adjust their emissions to situational demands. Here we report similar findings for human echolocation. We asked eight blind expert echolocators to detect reflectors positioned at various azimuth angles. The same 17.5 cm diameter circular reflector placed at 100 cm distance at 0°, 45° or 90° with respect to straight ahead was detected with 100% accuracy, but p...

In fluorescence microscopy, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the optical system is directly linked to the numerical aperture (NA) of the microscope objective, which creates detection challenges for low-NA, wide-field and high-throughput imaging systems. Here we demonstrate a method to increase the light collection efficiency from micron-scale fluorescent objects using self-assembled vapor-con...

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology is expected to dominate the future 5G networks mainly due to large spectrum available at these frequencies. However, coverage deteriorates significantly at mmWave frequencies due to higher path loss, especially for the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios. In this work, we explore the use of passive reflectors for improving mmWave signal coverage in NLOS indoor...

This document describes ways to prevent the use of default configured recursive nameservers as reflectors in Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. It provides recommended configuration as measures to mitigate the attack.

We report GaInP photonic crystal Fabry-Perot resonators containing integrated reflectors. Efficient wavelength conversion of 30 ps pulses was demonstrated where the Kerr effect dominates and the device speed is limited by the resonator

A new wireless and passive surface acoustic wave (SAW)-based chemical sensor for organophosphorous compound (OC) detection is presented. A 434 MHz reflective delay line configuration composed by single phase unidirectional transducers (SPUDTs) and three shorted reflectors was fabricated on YZ LiNbO₃ piezoelectric substrate as the sensor element. A thin fluoroalcoholpolysiloxane (SXFA) film acte...

We report on a new synthesis method of reflection filters with multilayer and waveguide structures. The filter is characterized by bandwidth as small as ≤ 1 nm for effective use in wavelength-division-multiplexed optical communications. Both the transfer-matrix method and the Fourier transformation are employed to determine the filter reflection from a spatially varying refractive index. In con...

The present work investigates the size dependent reflective properties of TiO2 nanoparticles and discusses the development of reflectors. The nanocrystalline TiO2 powders with different crystallinity and phase structures were obtained by controlling the reaction parameters. TiO2 nanoparticles synthesized via sol-gel method were characterized by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electr...