The generalized Wolf shift for cyclostationary fields

Robert W Schoonover; Brynmor J Davis; P Scott Carney

doi:10.1364/oe.17.004705

The generalized Wolf shift for cyclostationary fields

Opt Express. 2009 Mar 16;17(6):4705-11. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.004705.

Authors

Robert W Schoonover¹, Brynmor J Davis, P Scott Carney

Affiliation

¹ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. rschoono@uiuc.edu

PMID: 19293899
DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.004705

Abstract

Correlation dependent, propagation-induced shifts in the generalized spectra of cyclostationary, random fields are predicted. This result generalizes the Wolf shift for stationary fields and is applicable to periodic trains of fast pulses such as might be generated in comb spectroscopy or other mode-locked pulsed systems. Examples illustrate these shifts for intrinsically stationary fields and the fields generated by a mode-locked laser.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.