S U M M A R Y We perform a systematic analysis of crustal anisotropy along and around the Karadere–Düzce branch of the North Anatolian fault (NAF), which ruptured during the 1999 Mw 7.4 İzmit and Mw 7.1 Düzce earthquakes. A method consisting of an iterative grid search for the best shear wave splitting parameters in sliding time windows is applied to ∼22 000 measurements recorded in the 6-month...

[1] We report measurements of long-period P wave polarization (Ppol) in Australia and Tahiti made by combining modeling of the polarization deviation and harmonic analysis. The analysis of the deviation of the horizontal polarization of the P wave as a function of event back azimuth may be used to obtain information about (1) sensor misorientation, (2) dipping discontinuities, (3) seismic aniso...

We estimate shear-wave velocities in the shallow subsurface throughout Japan by applying seismic interferometry to the data recorded with KiK-net, a strongmotion network in Japan. Each KiK-net station has two receivers; one receiver on the surface and the other in a borehole. By using seismic interferometry, we extract the shear wave that propagates between these two receivers. Applying this me...

An important application of 3-D converted P to S-waves (PS-waves) is to exploit S-wave birefringence (splitting) for delineating reservoir fractures. In azimuthally anisotropic media, fracture intensities and orientations are directly related to traveltime differences between the fast and slow S-wave and the polarization direction of the fast S-wave, respectively. Analysis techniques to help ch...

We calculate the wavenumbers and polarization vectors for the two eigenmodes of light propagation through a polarized alkali vapor in a magnetic field. The wavenumbers correspond to the atomic polarizabilities for absorbing photons with ±1 unit of angular momentum. If there is an angle θ between the light propagation direction and the magnetic field, then, to a very good approximation, the wave...

Alternating direction methods are a common tool for general mathematical programming and optimization. These methods have become particularly important in the field of variational image processing, which frequently requires the minimization of non-differentiable objectives. This paper considers accelerated (i.e., fast) variants of two common alternating direction methods: the Alternating Direct...

The noncollinear cycloidal magnetic order breaks the inversion symmetry in CaMn7O12, generating one of the largest spin-orbit driven ferroelectric polarizations measured to date. In this Letter, the microscopic origin of the polarization, including its direction, charge density redistribution, magnetic exchange interactions, and its coupling to the spin helicity, is explored via first principle...

A novel self-initiating multiple signal classification (MUSIC)-based direction-finding (DF) and polarization-estimation algorithm in spatio-polarizational beamspace is herein presented for an arbitrarily spaced array of identically oriented electromagnetic vector sensors. An electromagnetic vector sensor, already commercially available, is composed of six colocated, but diversely polarized, ant...

Polarization of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers ~VCSELs! grown on ~001! GaAs substrate has been controlled by electro-optic birefringence. Birefringence was induced at the top distributed Bragg reflector by applying an electric field along the @001# direction. The cavity resonance of the polarized light along the @110# or @11̄0# direction shifted to shorter and longer wavelength, dependi...

Polarization analysis in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) is of tremendous advantage, as it allows one to study highly directional intrinsic properties of a sample at the nanoscale. However, neither evaluation nor control of the polarization properties of near-field light in TERS is as straightforward as in usual far-field illumination, because of the random metallic nanostructure attache...