Beam broadening effects on the Doppler radar spectrum induced by alongand cross-radar-beam winds are theoretically investigated in this article. Analytical expression of beam broadening spectrum for a vertical beam subject to a constant vertical wind in the absence of horizontal wind is derived first. We find that the resultant beam broadening spectral shape is in an exponential form, rather th...

We present a robust interferometric method to generate arbitrary vector beam modes by diffracting a Gaussian laser beam from a spatial light modulator consisting of a high-resolution reflective nematic liquid crystal display. Vector beams may have the same intensity cross-section as the more common scalar Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) or Hermite–Gaussian (HG) beams, but with a spatially modulated pola...

The Gaussian beam method of Cerveny et. al. [1982] is an asymptotic method for the computation of wavefields in inhomogeneous media. The method consists of tracing rays and then solving the wave equation in "ray-centered coordinates." The parabolic approximation is applied to find the asymptotic local solution in the neighborhood of each ray. The approximate global solution for a given source i...