Extensions of the Heisenberg group and coaxial coupling of transverse eigenmodes

DOI10.1216/RMJ-1989-19-1-383MaRDI QIDQ757612zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter Schempp

Publication date 1989

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1216/rmj-1989-19-1-383

zbMATH Keywords

angular momentacircular cross-sectioncoaxial coupling coefficientscross-ambiguity functionseigenmodes in fibersharmonic oscillator wavefunctionsirreducible unitary representationsKrawtchouk polynomialsnilpotent Heisenberg groupOptical fibersreal metaplectic groupselection rulestransverse eigenmodes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (special orbital integrals, non-type I representations, etc.) (22E27) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Other wave functions (33E15) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05) Analysis on other specific Lie groups (43A80) Geometric optics (78A05) Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12)

Review text

Optical fibers of rectangular or circular cross-section are classically modeled by a parabolic profile of index of refraction, so harmonic oscillator wavefunctions describe the transverse eigenmodes. These functions provide bases for irreducible unitary representations of the usual two-step nilpotent Heisenberg group, and for its semidirect product with solvable and compact subgroups of the one-dimensional real metaplectic group. The author studies the coaxial coupling coefficients between two eigenmodes in fibers of the same type, with different width parameters and separated by a flat interface. These are found by the integral (overlap) of their cross-ambiguity functions. Although predictably there are selection rules between eigenmodes with different angular momenta (circular case) and parities (rectangular case), it is remarkable that in the general case they are given in terms of values of the Krawtchouk polynomials.

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