BIREFRINGENCE BY A SMOOTHLY INHOMOGENEOUS LOCALLY ISOTROPIC MEDIUM

Authors
LIBERMAN VS ZELDOVICH BY
Citation
Vs. Liberman et By. Zeldovich, BIREFRINGENCE BY A SMOOTHLY INHOMOGENEOUS LOCALLY ISOTROPIC MEDIUM, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 49(3), 1994, pp. 2389-2396
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Physycs, Mathematical","Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics → ACNP
ISSN journal
1063651X
Volume
49
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
2389 - 2396
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-651X(1994)49:3<2389:BBASIL>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a layered locally isotropic medium is considered. An effective birefringence n(parallel-to) - n(pe rpendicular-to) approximately (lambda/a)2 for the parallel-to and perp endicular-to eigenpolarizations appears, and the corresponding phase d ifference phi(parallel-to) - phi(perpendicular-to) approximately (lamb da/a) is calculated in this paper. An alternative method of calculatio n of the higher (approximately lambda/a) WKB corrections for the one-d imensional Schrodinger problem is developed as a by-product of the wor k.