WIGNER DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION FOR PARAXIAL POLYCHROMATIC OPTICS

Authors
WOLF KB
Citation
Kb. Wolf, WIGNER DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION FOR PARAXIAL POLYCHROMATIC OPTICS, Optics communications, 132(3-4), 1996, pp. 343-352
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
132
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
343 - 352
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1996)132:3-4<343:WDFFPP>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
Polychromatic paraxial wavefields and their color images on a screen a re provided here with a Wigner distribution function of position, mome ntum and wavelength. The definition is based on the Heisenberg-Weyl gr oup. In the monochromatic limit we return to the common Wigner functio n and phase-space formalism. We examine one- and two-Gaussian polychro matic wavefields.