Gaussian Light Beams in Inhomogeneous Media

Gaussian light beams in inhomogeneous media.

Vector wave solutions are obtained for the propagation of beams of light in media having slow spatial variations of the gain, loss, or index of refraction. The formalism developed here is applicable to a wide range of problems, and an exa mple considered in detail is the propagation of off-axis beams in lenslike laser materials and optical waveguides. A procedure is also described for the diagn...

Gaussian beam evolution in inhomogeneous nonlinear media with absorption

The method of complex geometrical optics (CGO) is presented, which describes Gaussian beam (GB) diffraction and self-focusing along a curvilinear trajectory in inhomogeneous and nonlinear saturable media. CGO method reduces the problem of Gaussian beam propagation in inhomogeneous and nonlinear media to solving ordinary differential equations for the complex curvature of the wave front and for ...

Spin angular momentum of inhomogeneous and transversely limited light beams

The spin angular momentum (AM) of a light beam appears due to presence of circular or elliptic polarization. Its characterization is coupled with some paradoxical features which are commonly recognized but, to our opinion, are not satisfactorily explained in the known literature. Namely, for a spatially-homogeneous circularly polarized beam, the spin AM density is zero at every point of the bea...

Optimal Control of Light Propagation Governed by Eikonal Equation within Inhomogeneous Media Using Computational Adjoint Approach

A mathematical model is presented in the present study to control‎ ‎the light propagation in an inhomogeneous media‎. ‎The method is ‎based on the identification of the optimal materials distribution‎ ‎in the media such that the trajectories of light rays follow the‎ ‎desired path‎. ‎The problem is formulated as a distributed parameter ‎identification problem and it is solved by a numerical met...

Spherically symmetric inhomogeneous bianisotropic media: Wave propagation and light scattering