Photonics (Oct 2021)

Modal Analysis of Pseudo-Schell Model Sources

  • Massimo Santarsiero,
  • Rosario Martínez-Herrero,
  • Gemma Piquero,
  • Juan Carlos González de Sande,
  • Franco Gori

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8100449
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 10
p. 449

Abstract

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All pseudo-Schell model sources have been shown to possess the same continuous set of circularly symmetric modes, all of them presenting a conical wavefront. For keeping energy at a finite level, the mode amplitude along the radial coordinate is modulated by a decreasing exponential function. A peculiar property of such modes is that they exist in the Laplace transform’s realm. After a brief discussion of the near-zone, we pass to the far-zone, where the field can be evaluated in closed form. The corresponding features of the intensity distribution are discussed.

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