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Popa, Bogdan-Ioan

Publications and source records attributed to Popa, Bogdan-Ioan.

2 records

DOE OSTI2014

Design and demonstration of broadband thin planar diffractive acoustic lenses

We present here two diffractive acoustic lenses with subwavelength thickness, planar profile, and broad operation bandwidth. Tapered labyrinthine unit cells with their inherently broadband effective material properties are exploited in our design. Both the measured and the simulated results are showcased to demonstrate the lensing effect over more than 40% of the central frequency. The focusing of a propagating Gaussian modulated sinusoidal pulse is also demonstrated. This work paves the way for designing diffractive acoustic lenses and more generalized phase engineering diffractive elements with labyrinthine acoustic metamaterials.

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND↗

DOE OSTI2011

Complex coordinates in transformation optics

We show that complex coordinates used in conjunction with transformation optics offer an extra degree of freedom that allows control over not only the propagation direction of electromagnetic waves but also their amplitude. We illustrate this idea in two applications. First, we show that in an n-dimensional space one can manipulate the field amplitude for up to n different amplitude distributions in regions that are critical to the performance of the device under consideration, and thus reduce the device's sensitivity to design imperfections in these regions. Second, we expand previous work on reflectionless perfectly matched layers and show how complex coordinates and transformation optics are a natural choice for designing perfectly matched layers of arbitrary shape.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗