With the new NASA directive of returning to the Moon in 2024 as a stepping stone to missions to Mars and beyond, there is a renewed interest in developing nuclear thermal[...]

We study the propagation properties (intensity, degree of coherence and scintillation) of a new class of beams in a turbulent atmosphere, which are called Hermite non-uni[...]

Close to the ground, it is generally known that atmospheric turbulence exhibits strong anisotropy, which affects the performance of applications such as free-space optica[...]

We introduce a new class of twisted partially coherent beams with a non-unifirm correlation structure. These beams, called twisted Hermite Gaussian Schell model (THGSM) b[...]

Optical sorting, as one kind of optical tweezers, is used to separate mixed particles in a background environment. This unusual tool has a wide application prospect becau[...]

We demonstrate how the unusual mathematics of transfinite numbers, in particular, a nearly perfect realization of Hilbert's famous hotel paradox, manifests in the propaga[...]

We study the propagation properties of a recently introduced class of structured beams, radially polarized Hermite non-uniformly correlated (RPHNUC) beams, in a turbulent[...]

We introduce a new class of non-uniformly correlated beams that are called rectangular Hermite non-uniformly correlated (RHNUC) beams, which possess rectangular symmetry [...]

When an orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) beam propagates through the dynamic air-water interface, the aerosol above the water and the water surface curvature could induce v[...]

Optical transmission through multi-layered systems of corrugated metallic thin films is investigated by rigorous electromagnetic simulations based on an exact Green tenso[...]