704 research outputs found
Statistics of resonance states in a weakly open chaotic cavity
In this letter, we demonstrate that a non-Hermitian Random Matrix description
can account for both spectral and spatial statistics of resonance states in a
weakly open chaotic wave system with continuously distributed losses. More
specifically, the statistics of resonance states in an open 2D chaotic
microwave cavity are investigated by solving the Maxwell equations with lossy
boundaries subject to Ohmic dissipation. We successfully compare the statistics
of its complex-valued resonance states and associated widths with analytical
predictions based on a non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonian model defined by a
finite number of fictitious open channels
Microfabricated rubber microscope using soft solid immersion lenses
We show here a technique of soft lithography to microfabricate efficient solid immersion lenses (SIL) out of rubber elastomers. The light collection efficiency of a lens system is described by its numerical aperture (NA), and is critical for applications as epifluorescence microscopy [B. Herman, Fluorescence Microscopy (BIOS Scientific, Oxford/Springer, United Kingdom, 1998). While most simple lens systems have numerical apertures less than 1, the lenses described here have NA=1.25. Better performance can be engineered though the use of compound designs; we used this principle to make compound solid immersion lenses (NA=1.32). An important application of these lenses will be as integrated optics for microfluidic devices. We incorporated them into a handheld rubber microscope for microfluidic flow cytometry and imaged single E. Coli cells by fluorescence
Complete S-matrix in a microwave cavity at room temperature
We experimentally study the widths of resonances in a two-dimensional
microwave cavity at room temperature. By developing a model for the coupling
antennas, we are able to discriminate their contribution from those of ohmic
losses to the broadening of resonances. Concerning ohmic losses, we
experimentally put to evidence two mechanisms: damping along propagation and
absorption at the contour, the latter being responsible for variations of
widths from mode to mode due to its dependence on the spatial distribution of
the field at the contour. A theory, based on an S-matrix formalism, is given
for these variations. It is successfully validated through measurements of
several hundreds of resonances in a rectangular cavity.Comment: submitted to PR
Diffractive orbits in the length spectrum of a 2D microwave cavity with a small scatterer
In a 2D rectangular microwave cavity dressed with one point-like scatterer, a
semiclassical approach is used to analyze the spectrum in terms of periodic
orbits and diffractive orbits. We show, both numerically and experimentally,
how the latter can be accounted for in the so-called length spectrum which is
retrieved from 2-point correlations of a finite range frequency spectrum.
Beyond its fundamental interest, this first experimental evidence of the role
played by diffractive orbits in the spectrum of an actual cavity, can be the
first step towards a novel technique to detect and track small defects in wave
cavities.Comment: 14 pages, format IO
Localized Modes in a Finite-Size Open Disordered Microwave Cavity
We present measurements of the spatial intensity distribution of localized
modes in a two-dimensional open microwave cavity randomly filled with
cylindrical dielectric scatterers. We show that each of these modes displays a
range of localization lengths and successfully relate the largest value to the
measured leakage rate at the boundary. These results constitute unambiguous
signatures of the existence of strongly localized electromagnetic modes in
two-dimensionnal open random media
Avoided level crossing statistics in open chaotic billiards
We investigate a two-level model with a large number of open decay channels
in order to describe avoided level crossing statistics in open chaotic
billiards. This model allows us to describe the fundamental changes of the
probability distribution of the avoided level crossings compared with the
closed case. Explicit expressions are derived for systems with preserved and
broken Time Reversal Symmetry (TRS). We find that the decay process induces a
modification at small spacings of the probability distribution of the avoided
level crossings due to an attraction of the resonances. The theoretical
predictions are in complete agreement with the recent experimental results of
Dietz \textit{et al.} (Phys. Rev. E {\bf 73} (2006) 035201)
Universal behaviour of a wave chaos based electromagnetic reverberation chamber
In this article, we present a numerical investigation of three-dimensional
electromagnetic Sinai-like cavities. We computed around 600 eigenmodes for two
different geometries: a parallelepipedic cavity with one half- sphere on one
wall and a parallelepipedic cavity with one half-sphere and two spherical caps
on three adjacent walls. We show that the statistical requirements of a well
operating reverberation chamber are better satisfied in the more complex
geometry without a mechanical mode-stirrer/tuner. This is to the fact that our
proposed cavities exhibit spatial and spectral statistical behaviours very
close to those predicted by random matrix theory. More specifically, we show
that in the range of frequency corresponding to the first few hundred modes,
the suppression of non-generic modes (regarding their spatial statistics) can
be achieved by reducing drastically the amount of parallel walls. Finally, we
compare the influence of losses on the statistical complex response of the
field inside a parallelepipedic and a chaotic cavity. We demonstrate that, in a
chaotic cavity without any stirring process, the low frequency limit of a well
operating reverberation chamber can be significantly reduced under the usual
values obtained in mode-stirred reverberation chambers
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