Precession of wave packets in smoothly inhomogeneous dispersive media

Author

Permitin, G.V. ; Smirnov, A.I.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Appl. Phys., Acad. of Sci., Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

196

Abstract

In the quasi-optical aberration-free approximation, a parabolic equation for the envelope of an electromagnetic wave packet propagating along the geometric optical ray in a smoothly inhomogeneous isotropic medium with time dispersion is obtained. The effects of the combined influence of the refraction, diffraction, and dispersion on the evolution of the packet are analyzed; in particular, the effects that cause the precession of the envelope waves about the binormal to the propagation trajectory are considered.

Keywords

approximation theory; electromagnetic wave diffraction; electromagnetic wave propagation; electromagnetic wave refraction; geometrical optics; optical dispersion; parabolic equations; binormal; diffraction; dispersion; electromagnetic wave packet propagation; envelope waves; geometric optical ray; parabolic equation; propagation trajectory; quasi-optical aberration-free approximation; refraction; smoothly inhomogeneous dispersive media; smoothly inhomogeneous isotropic medium; time dispersion; wave packet precession; Dispersion; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic refraction; Electromagnetic scattering; Equations; Geometrical optics; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical diffraction; Optical propagation; Optical refraction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 4th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7375-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2002.1009544

Filename

1009544