Extensions of the Heisenberg group and coaxial coupling of transverse eigenmodes (Q757612)

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Extensions of the Heisenberg group and coaxial coupling of transverse eigenmodes
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    Extensions of the Heisenberg group and coaxial coupling of transverse eigenmodes (English)
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    1989
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    Optical fibers of rectangular or circular cross-section are classically modeled by a parabolic profile of index of refraction, so harmonic oscillator wavefunctions describe the transverse eigenmodes. These functions provide bases for irreducible unitary representations of the usual two-step nilpotent Heisenberg group, and for its semidirect product with solvable and compact subgroups of the one-dimensional real metaplectic group. The author studies the coaxial coupling coefficients between two eigenmodes in fibers of the same type, with different width parameters and separated by a flat interface. These are found by the integral (overlap) of their cross-ambiguity functions. Although predictably there are selection rules between eigenmodes with different angular momenta (circular case) and parities (rectangular case), it is remarkable that in the general case they are given in terms of values of the Krawtchouk polynomials.
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    Optical fibers
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    circular cross-section
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    harmonic oscillator wavefunctions
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    transverse eigenmodes
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    irreducible unitary representations
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    nilpotent Heisenberg group
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    real metaplectic group
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    coaxial coupling coefficients
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    eigenmodes in fibers
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    cross-ambiguity functions
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    selection rules
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    angular momenta
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    Krawtchouk polynomials
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