The evanescent waves in geometrical optics and the mixed hyperbolic–elliptic type systems

DOI10.1080/00036810500277173zbMATH Open1100.78005arXivmath-ph/0608040OpenAlexW1969686978WikidataQ58247718 ScholiaQ58247718MaRDI QIDQ5201459FDOQ5201459

Authors: Enrico De Micheli, Giovanni Alberto Viano 

Publication date: 19 April 2006

Published in: Applicable Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we describe the generation of the evanescent waves which are present in the rarer medium at total reflection by using a mixed-type system, the Ludwig system, which leads naturally to consider a complex-valued phase. The Ludwig system is derived from the Helmholtz equation by using an appropriate modification of the stationary phase procedure: the Chester, Friedman and Ursell's method. The passage from the illuminated to the shadow region is described by means of the ray switching mechanism based on the Stokes phenomenon applied to the Airy function. Finally, the transport system connected to the Ludwig eikonal system is studied in the case of linear wavefronts and the existence of the Goos-Hanchen effect is proved.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0608040

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zbMATH Keywords

geometric opticsStokes phenomenonevanescent wavesGoos-Hänchen effectmixed-type systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs of mixed type (35M10) Geometric optics (78A05) Stokes phenomena and connection problems (linear and nonlinear) for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M40)

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