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5 papers

physics.app-ph2026

Structured Illumination Scanning Thermography (SISTER)

Pengfei Zhu, Julien Lecompagnon, Philipp Daniel Hirsch +1

Conventional non-invasive photothermal imaging techniques are fundamentally constrained by the diffusive nature of heat transport, which causes severe energy dissipation during sub…

physics.app-ph2026

Generalized Virtual-Wave Theory for Photothermal Coherence Tomography under Arbitrary Excitation Toward Non-Contact Industrial Inspection of Composite Materials

Pengfei Zhu, Julien Lecompagnon, Philipp Daniel Hirsch +1

Photothermal imaging is a powerful noncontact and nondestructive technique for subsurface inspection of composite materials, yet its performance is fundamentally limited by the dif…

math-ph2026

A Unified Framework for Virtual Wave Transform: From Generalized Formulation to Excitation-Specific Projection

Pengfei Zhu, Julien Lecompagnon, Philipp Daniel Hirsch +1

We present a unified theoretical framework for the mapping between diffusive and wave-like dynamics, formulated as a spectral integral operator acting on temporal fields. By introd…

physics.optics2026

The Spectral Domain Snell Law in Diffusion-Wave Fields

Pengfei Zhu, Julien Lecompagnon, Philipp Daniel Hirsch +2

Snell law is traditionally regarded as a hallmark of phase-propagating phenomena such as optical, acoustic, elastic, electromagnetic, and quantum waves. In contrast, purely diffusi…

physics.app-ph2026

Generalized virtual wave reconstruction for vibrothermography: Overcoming the wavefront-free behavior and quantification challenges in the diffusion-wave field

Pengfei Zhu, Julien Lecompagnon, Mathias Ziegler +2

Wavefront-free behavior and the resulting quantification difficulties are intrinsic limitations of vibrothermography due to the diffusive nature of thermal fields. This work propos…