Long distance propagation of light in random media with partially coherent sources
Analysis of PDEs
2025-08-19 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Probability
Optics
Abstract
Optical beam propagation in random media is characterized by familiar speckle patterns generated by intricate interference effects. Such patterns may be modified and possibly attenuated for partially coherent incident beam profiles. In the weak-coupling regime of the It\^o-Schr\"odinger paraxial model of wave propagation, we show how the spatio-temporal statistics of the partially coherent beams interact with the statistics of the random medium to enhance or suppress scintillation effects.
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@article{arxiv.2406.05252,
title = {Long distance propagation of light in random media with partially coherent sources},
author = {Guillaume Bal and Anjali Nair},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05252},
year = {2025}
}
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27 pages