Equivalence of three approaches describing partially incoherent wave propagation in inertial nonlinear media

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作者
Christodoulides, DN [1 ]
Eugenieva, ED
Coskun, TH
Segev, M
Mitchell, M
机构
[1] Lehigh Univ, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA
[2] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[3] Corvis Corp, Columbia, MD 21046 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 2001年 / 63卷 / 03期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevE.63.035601
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
We show that three approaches previously developed to describe partially incoherent wave propagation in inertial nonlinear media are in fact equivalent. This equivalence is formally established through the evolution of the mutual coherence function and by means of Karhunen-Loeve expansions.
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