The acquisition of three-component high-density seismic data in WARR surveys, aimed at the two or three-dimensional modelling of buried structures, makes it possible to apply statistical-analysis techniques to estimate the propagation parameters of waves. The availability of the three components allows the use of the information about the state of the seismic wave polarization in order to filte...

We present the results of wide-field JHKS polarimetry toward the H II region S106 using the IRSF (Infrared Survey Facility) telescope. Our polarimetry data revealed an extended (up to ∼ 5) polarized nebula over S106. We confirmed the position of the illuminating source of most of the nebula as consistent with S106 IRS 4 through an analysis of polarization vectors. The bright portion of the pola...

The optimum linear combination channels for an N-receptor polarization-sensitive imaging or vision system are found by using a principal-components analysis. The channels that are derived are optimum in the sense that their information contents are uncorrelated when considered over the ensemble of possible polarization signals. For a two-receptor system, the optimum channels are shown to be the...

The generation of radially polarized beams at a wavelength of 1064 nm by the use of a polarization transformer device consisting of space-variant subwavelength gratings (SGs) is demonstrated experimentally. The SG generates a pi phase retardation between the TE and TM polarizations, acting as a half-wave plate, reflecting the polarization vector with respect to the axes of the plate. The polari...

We investigate numerically the collision dynamics of elliptically polarized solitons of the System of Coupled Nonlinear chrödinger Equations (SCNLSE) for various different initial polarizations and phases. General initial elliptic polarizations (not ech-shape) include as particular cases the circular and linear polarizations. The elliptically polarized solitons are computed by separate numerica...

Passive direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) are promising energy sources for portable electronic devices. Different from DMFCs with active fuel feeding systems, passive DMFCs with nearly stagnant fuel and air tend to bear comparatively less power densities. A steady state, one-dimensional, multi-component and thermal model is described and applied to simulate the operation of a passive direct me...

A method for polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar: SAR image classification with high frequency component derived from wavelet Multi-Resolution Analysis: MRA is proposed. Although it is well known that polarization signature derived from fully polarized SAR data is useful for SAR image classifications, it is still unknown how to utilize the polarization signature in the image classification. H...

We present a model for ab-initio calculations of the interaction of two-electron atoms and molecules with few-cycle pulses of intense linearly polarised Ti:sapphire laser radiation. In the model the center-of-mass motion of the two electrons is restricted along the polarisation direction axis, while its relative coordinate and, hence, the electron correlation is retained in its full dimensional...

Experiments have yielded polarization self-modulation in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) subject to a pi/2 polarization-rotating optical feedback. The phenomenon has been simulated numerically, but its bifurcation has never been explained. We show that polarization self-modulation results from a Hopf bifurcation mechanism that can be analyzed in terms of the laser feedback para...

It was recently demonstrated that a photonic crystal slab can function as a mirror for externally incident light along a normal direction with near-complete reflectivity over a broad wavelength range. We analyze the angular and polarization properties of such photonic crystal slab mirror, and show such reflectivity occurs over a sizable angular range for both polarizations. We also show that su...