Disruption of wavefronts: statistics of dislocations in incoherent Gaussian random waves
M V Berry; M V Berry; H.H. Wills Phys. Lab., Bristol Univ., Bristol, UK
Журнал:
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
Дата:
1978-01-01
Аннотация:
Wavefront dislocations-i.e. singularities of the phase of a wave psi in the form of moving lines in space where mod psi mod vanishes-are studied for initially plane waves that have passed through a random space and time-dependent phase-changing screen. For transmitted waves that are Gaussian random, incoherent, quasi-monochromatic and paraxial the following quantities are calculated in terms of the statistics of the phase screen: dislocation densities, i.e. the average number of dislocation lines piercing unit area of variously-oriented surfaces, and dislocation fluxes, i.e. the average number of dislocation lines crossing unit length of variously-directed lines in unit time.
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