Correlated Coherent States and Wave Propagation Through Optical Active Quadratic-Index Media
Sergei G. Krivoshlykov, Nikolai I. Petrov, I N Sisakyan
The choice of the representation (the complete set of functions) is very important for describing a field in many problems of wave propagation. A representation proved to be convenient here depends on excitation conditions and waveguide properties. It was shown [ 1 ] that the coherent states (CS) representation and the integrals of motion method turn to be extremely convenient for investigating Gaussian beam propagation in quadratic-index media. In [ 2 ] the correlated coherent states (CCS) were used to describe arbitrary Gaussian beam propagations in such media. The coherent state representation turns to be also convenient for description of nonparaxial propagation of both coherent and partially coherent radiation in the gradient medium [ 3 , 4 ]. Here we show that CCS turn to be also more convenient representation for investigating wave propagation in optic active quadratic media. CCS in such media describe a Gaussian wave packets with constant parameters during beam propagation. These states permit the concept of geometric ray width and wave front curvature to be introduced by natural manner and the relationship between wave and ray optics description to be clearly visualized for quadratic media with loss or gain.
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