We developed an interferometric microscopy technique, referred to as Jones phase microscopy, capable of extracting the spatially resolved Jones polarization matrix associated with transparent and anisotropic samples. This is a generalization of quantitative phase imaging, which is recovered from one diagonal element of the measured matrix. The principle of the technique is demonstrated with mea...

The NIW (non-interaction of waves) property has been proposed by one of the coauthors. The NIW property states that in the absence of any “obstructing” detectors, all the Huygens-Fresnel secondary wave lets will continue to propagate unhindered and without interacting (interfering) with each other. Since a coherent lidar system incorporates complex behaviors of optical components with different...

We present a simple method to determine the polarimetric properties of spatial light modulators (SLMs) for each grey level by means irradiance measurements. The Jones matrix SLM is obtained without any assumption about its properties, so it can be applied more devices than previous works. This enough quickly performed, while offers better results works, as reduces error in prediction transmissi...

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) models are an appealing method for performing zeolite simulations. In QM/MM, a small cluster chosen to encompass the active center is described by QM, while the rest of the zeolite is described by MM. In the present study, we demonstrate that the charges and Lennard-Jones parameters on Si and O must be chosen properly for QM/MM calculations of adsor...

The first absolute se ,3ed measurements, by Lahmam-Bennani et al. [Phys. Rev. A 59, 3548 (1999)], have been recently approximately reproduced by Berakdar [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4036 (2000)] and supported by Jones and Madison [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073201 (2003)], but with widely differing conclusions. The former indirectly implied that the Born-CCC-based calculations of Kheifets et al. [J. Phys. ...

It can be conjectured that the colored Jones function of a knot can be computed in terms of counting paths on the graph of a planar projection of a knot. On the combinatorial level, the colored Jones function can be replaced by its weight system. We give two curious formulas for the weight system of a colored Jones function: one in terms of the permanent of a matrix associated to a chord diagra...