A phase-space approach for propagating field–field correlation functions

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/17/9/093027zbMATH Open1448.78045arXiv1504.00507OpenAlexW2155162182MaRDI QIDQ5136104FDOQ5136104

Christopher Smartt, Gregor Tanner, Stephen C. Creagh, Gabriele Gradoni, David W. P. Thomas

Publication date: 25 November 2020

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that radiation from complex and inherently random but correlated wave sources can be modelled efficiently by using an approach based on the Wigner distribution function. Our method exploits the connection between correlation functions and theWigner function and admits in its simplest approximation a direct representation in terms of the evolution of ray densities in phase space. We show that next leading order corrections to the ray-tracing approximation lead to Airy-function type phase space propagators. By exploiting the exact Wigner function propagator, inherently wave-like effects such as evanescent decay or radiation from more heterogeneous sources as well as diffraction and reflections can be included and analysed. We discuss in particular the role of evanescent waves in the near-field of non-paraxial sources and give explicit expressions for the growth rate of the correlation length as function of the distance from the source. Furthermore, results for the reflection of partially coherent sources from flat mirrors are given. We focus here on electromagnetic sources at microwave frequencies and modelling efforts in the context of electromagnetic compatibility.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00507

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

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• Transport of phase space densities through tetrahedral meshes using discrete flow mapping

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