We present a Monte Carlo-derived Green's function for the propagation of partially spatially coherent fields. This Green's function, which is derived by sampling Huygens-Fresnel wavelets, can be used to propagate fields through an optical system and to compute first- and second-order field statistics directly. The concept is illustrated for a cylindrical f/1 imaging system. A Gaussian copula is...

Peng Wang, Jia Qi, Zhengming Liu, Yang Liao, Wei Chu, Ya Cheng 1 State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China. 2 School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 200031, China. 3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. 4 State Key Labor...

By making use of a new technique for measuring the complete spatiotemporal electric field of light with micrometer spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution, we directly demonstrate the formation of the so called boundary diffraction wave and Arago’s spot, as well as the superluminal propagation of a “diffrac tion free” pulse. We believe that such spatiotemporally resolved measurements and th...

A comprehensive physical model of adiabatic three-wave mixing is developed for the fully nonlinear regime, i.e., without making the undepleted pump approximation. The conditions for adiabatic evolution are rigorously derived, together with an estimate of the bandwidth of the process. Furthermore, these processes are shown to be robust and efficient. Finally, numerical simulations demonstrate ad...

A framework to describe a broad class of physical operations (including unitary transformations, dissipation, noise, and measurement) in a quantum optics experiment is given. This framework provides a powerful tool for assessing the capabilities and limitations of performing quantum information processing tasks using current experimental techniques. The Gottesman-Knill theorem is generalized to...

A propagation model is presented in this paper for predicting the field strength in microcellular environments. According to the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, the total field at a given observation point is calculated by summing the Geometrical Optics contributions and the field diffracted by the edges of each structure. The diffraction contributions are here evaluated by means of a Unifor...

PT-Symmetry is one of the interesting topics in quantum mechanics and optics. One of the demonstration of PT-Symmetric effects in optics is appeared in the nonlinear directional coupler (NLDC). In the paper we numerically investigate the stability of temporal bright solitons propagate in a PT-Symmetric NLDC by considering gain in bar and loss in cross. By using the analytical solutions of pertu...