Efficient retrieval of phase information from real-valued electromagnetic field data

DOI10.1016/J.JCPX.2019.100019arXiv1801.04812WikidataQ128310162 ScholiaQ128310162MaRDI QIDQ6184053FDOQ6184053

Authors: Alexander Blinne, Stephan Kuschel, Stefan Tietze, Matt Zepf 

Publication date: 5 January 2024

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics: X (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: While analytic calculations may give access to complex-valued electromagnetic field data which allow trivial access to envelope and phase information, the majority of numeric codes uses a real-valued represantation. This typically increases the performance and reduces the memory footprint, albeit at a price: In the real-valued case it is much more difficult to extract envelope and phase information, even more so if counter propagating waves are spatially superposed. A novel method for the analysis of real-valued electromagnetic field data is presented in this paper. We show that, by combining the real-valued electric and magnetic field at a single point in time, we can directly reconstruct the full information of the electromagnetic fields in the form of complex-valued spectral coefficients ($veck$-space) at a low computational cost of only three Fourier transforms. The method allows for counter propagating plane waves to be accurately distinguished as well as their complex spectral coefficients, i.,e. spectral amplitudes and spectral phase to be calculated. From these amplitudes, the complex-valued electromagnetic fields and also the complex-valued vector potential can be calculated from which information about spatiotemporal phase and amplitude is readily available. Additionally, the complex fields allow for efficient vacuum propagation allowing to calculate far field data or boundary input data from near field data. An implementation of the new method is available as part of PostPic, a data analysis toolkit written in the Python programming language.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04812

zbMATH Keywords

phasefrequency domainelectromagnetic fieldspicfdtdshhg

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optics, electromagnetic theory (78-XX) Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX)

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• Phase retrieval of radiated fields

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