Generalized Huygens principle with pulsed-beam wavelets

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/47/475403zbMATH Open1187.42032arXiv0904.0683OpenAlexW2150674914MaRDI QIDQ3402132FDOQ3402132

Authors: Thorkild B. Hansen, Gerald Kaiser 

Publication date: 2 February 2010

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Huygens' principle has a well-known problem with back-propagation due to the spherical nature of the secondary wavelets. We solve this by analytically continuing the surface of integration. If the surface is a sphere of radius $R$, this is done by complexifying $R$ to $R+ia$. The resulting complex sphere is shown to be a real bundle of disks with radius $a$ tangent to the sphere. Huygens' "secondary source points" are thus replaced by disks, and his spherical wavelets by well-focused pulsed beams propagating outward. This solves the back-propagation problem. The extended Huygens principle is a completeness relation for pulsed beams, giving a representation of a general radiation field as a superposition of such beams. Furthermore, it naturally yields a very efficient way to compute radiation fields because all pulsed beams missing a given observer can be ignored. Increasing $a$ sharpens the focus of the pulsed beams, which in turn raises the compression of the representation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0683

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nontrigonometric harmonic analysis involving wavelets and other special systems (42C40)

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