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Interference of randomly scattered classical waves naturally leads to familiar speckle patterns, where the wave intensity follows an exponential distribution while the wave field itself is described by a circularly symmetric complex normal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Guillaume Bal , Anjali Nair

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Guillaume Bal , Anjali Nair

This paper concerns the propagation of high frequency wave-beams in highly turbulent atmospheres. Using a paraxial model of wave propagation, we show in the long-distance weak-coupling regime that the wavefields are approximately described…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Guillaume Bal , Anjali Nair

When waves propagate through a complex medium like the turbulent atmosphere the wave field becomes incoherent and the wave intensity forms a complex speckle pattern. In this paper we study a speckle memory effect in the frequency domain and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

We study the paraxial wave equation with a randomly perturbed index of refraction, which can model the propagation of a wave beam in a turbulent medium. The random perturbation is a stationary and isotropic process with a general form of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

When waves propagate through a strongly scattering medium the energy is transferred to the incoherent wave part by scattering. The wave intensity then forms a random speckle pattern seemingly without much useful information. However, a…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-23 Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

This is the first article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for imaging purposes. Speckle is the complex interference wave-field produced by a random distribution of un-resolved scatterers. In this paper, we show…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Elsa Giraudat , Flavien Bureau , William Lambert , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

A theory for the characterization of the fourth moment of electromagnetic wave beams is presented in the case when the source is partially coherent. A Gaussian-Schell model is used for the partially coherent random source. The white-noise…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-19 Josselin Garnier , Knut Sølna

Light propagation through turbulence produces speckles, whose ensemble behavior is typically characterized by snapshot intensity statistics. Here, we track the spatiotemporal evolution of individual speckles and quantify fragmentation,…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-12 Travis M. Crumpton , Luat T. Vuong

We develop a general method for calculating statistical properties of the speckle pattern of coherent waves propagating in disordered media. In some aspects this method is similar to the Boltzmann-Langevin approach for the calculation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 Oded Agam , A. V. Andreev , B. Spivak

We examine statistical properties of a laser beam propagating in a turbulent medium. We prove that the intensity fluctuations at large propagation distances possess Gaussian probability density function and establish quantitative criteria…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-06 Igor Kolokolov , Vladimir Lebedev , Pavel M. Lushnikov

The result of 2-dimensional Gaussian lattice fit to a speckle intensity pattern based on a linear model that includes nearest-neighbor interactions is presented. We also include a Monte Carlo simulation of the same spatial speckle pattern…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-13 John R. Smith , J. J. Llovera-Gonzalez , Stephen P. Smith

This work develops machine learning approaches to classify structured light wave beams developing random speckle disturbances as they propagate through turbulent atmospheres. Beam propagation is modeled by the numerical simulation of a…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-17 Aokun Wang , Anjali Nair , Zhongjian Wang , Guillaume Bal

The wave propagation in random medium plays a critical role in optics and quantum physics. Multiple scattering of coherent wave in a random medium determines the transport procedure. Brownian motions of the scatterers perturb each…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-25 Peng Miao , Yifan Zhang , Cheng Wang , Shanbao Tong

A general method for calculating statistical properties of speckle patterns of coherent waves propagating in disordered media is developed. It allows one to calculate speckle pattern correlations in space, as well as their sensitivity to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Oded Agam , Anton Andreev , Boris Spivak

We study theoretically the spatial correlations between the intensities measured at the input and output planes of a disordered scattering medium. We show that at large optical thicknesses, a long-range spatial correlation persists and…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-23 N. Fayard , A. Cazé , R. Pierrat , R. Carminati

Random light fields -- commonly known as speckles -- demonstrate Rayleigh intensity statistics and only possess local correlations: which occur within the individual speckle grains. In this work, we develop an experimental method for…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-15 Nicholas Bender , Hasan Yılmaz , Yaron Bromberg , Hui Cao

We propose a quantum algorithm that simulates the propagation of a light field through a weakly inhomogeneous medium. The wave equation in the paraxial approximation in inhomogeneous material takes the form of the Schr\"odinger equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Siavash Davani , Martin Gärttner , Falk Eilenberger

A large distance propagation in turbulent atmosphere results in disintegration of laser beam into speckles. We find that the most intense speckle approximately preserves both the Gaussian shape and the diameter of the initial collimated…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Natalia Vladimirova

A generalized Langevin equation is suggested to describe a system with memory($u(t,t') = \frac{1}{\Gamma (\nu )}(t - t')^\nu $) as well as with positive and negative damping. The equation can be transformed into the Fokker-Planck equation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Peng Wang , Feng-Chun Pan , Jie Huo , Xu-Ming Wang
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