Stability of time reversed waves in changing media

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2005.12.793MaRDI QIDQ556487zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guillaume Bal, Lenya Ryzhik

Publication date 21 June 2005

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404267

zbMATH Keywords

waves in random mediatime reversalchanging mediaparaxial equationsWigner transformsItô-Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Random operators and equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H25)

Abstract: We analyze the refocusing properties of time reversed waves that propagate in two different media during the forward and backward stages of a time-reversal experiment. We consider two regimes of wave propagation modeled by the paraxial wave equation with a smooth random refraction coefficient and the It^o-Schr"odinger equation, respectively. In both regimes, we rigorously characterize the refocused signal in the high frequency limit and show that it is statistically stable, that is, independent of the realizations of the two media. The analysis is based on a characterization of the high frequency limit of the Wigner transform of two fields propagating in different media. The refocusing quality of the back-propagated signal is determined by the cross correlation of the two media. When the two media decorrelate, two distinct de-focusing effects are observed. The first one is a purely absorbing effect due to the loss of coherence at a fixed frequency. The second one is a phase modulation effect of the refocused signal at each frequency. This causes de-focusing of the back-propagated signal in the time domain.

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