Generalized Huygens principle with pulsed-beam wavelets

Details Generalized Huygens principle with pulsed-beam wavelets Generalized Huygens principle with pulsed-beam wavelets

2009-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/0904.0683v2

J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009) 475403

Physics

Mathematical Physics

49 pages, 14 figures

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Huygens' principle has a well-known problem with back-propagation due to the spherical nature of the secondary wavelets. We solve this by analytically continuing the surface of integration. If the surface is a sphere of radius $R$, this is done by complexifying $R$ to $R+ia$. The resulting complex sphere is shown to be a real bundle of disks with radius $a$ tangent to the sphere. Huygens' "secondary source points" are thus replaced by disks, and his spherical wavelets by well-focused pulsed beams propagating outward. This solves the back-propagation problem. The extended Huygens principle is a completeness relation for pulsed beams, giving a representation of a general radiation field as a superposition of such beams. Furthermore, it naturally yields a very efficient way to compute radiation fields because all pulsed beams missing a given observer can be ignored. Increasing $a$ sharpens the focus of the pulsed beams, which in turn raises the compression of the representation.

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