Abstract

A recently formulated geometrical theory of diffraction for coherence functions of high-frequency fields propagating in a random medium is applied here to the canonical problem of line-source field diffraction by a perfectly reflecting wedge. The solution strategy for various regular and transitional ray-optical domains, indicative of what will be done also for other configurations, involves transport of two-point coherence functions, random fields, and two-point random functions, using multiscale expansion propagators.

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Geometrical theory of diffraction for high-frequency coherence functions in a weakly random medium

R. Mazar and L. B. Felsen
Opt. Lett. 12(3) 146-148 (1987)

Stochastic geometrical diffraction theory in a random medium with inhomogeneous background

R. Mazar and L. B. Felsen
Opt. Lett. 12(5) 301-303 (1987)

High-frequency propagators for diffraction and backscattering in random media

Reuven Mazar
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(1) 34-46 (1990)

Coherence properties of retroreflected radiation in a power-law random medium

R. Mazar and A. Bronshtein
Opt. Lett. 15(14) 766-768 (1990)

Enhancement of backscattered intensity in a random medium

R. Mazar and A. Bronshtein
Opt. Lett. 16(17) 1304-1306 (1991)