Does the coherent lidar system corroborate non-interaction of waves (NIW)?

Narasimha S. Prasad; Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri

doi:10.1117/12.2025459

1 October 2013 Does the coherent lidar system corroborate non-interaction of waves (NIW)?

Narasimha S. Prasad, Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri

Proceedings Volume 8832, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? V; 883209 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2025459
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The NIW (non-interaction of waves) property has been proposed by one of the coauthors. The NIW property states that in the absence of any “obstructing” detectors, all the Huygens-Fresnel secondary wave lets will continue to propagate unhindered and without interacting (interfering) with each other. Since a coherent lidar system incorporates complex behaviors of optical components with different polarizations including circular polarization for the transmitted radiation, then the question arises whether the NIW principle accommodate elliptical polarization of light. Elliptical polarization presumes the summation of orthogonally polarized electric field vectors which contradicts the NIW principle. In this paper, we present working of a coherent lidar system using Jones matrix formulation. The Jones matrix elements represent the anisotropic dipolar properties of molecules of optical components. Accordingly, when we use the Jones matrix methodology to analyze the coherent lidar system, we find that the system behavior is congruent with the NIW property.

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Narasimha S. Prasad and Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri "Does the coherent lidar system corroborate non-interaction of waves (NIW)?", Proc. SPIE 8832, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? V, 883209 (1 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2025459

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