Abstract

Wave propagation in a weak random medium has generally been understood to give rise to log-normal field statistics, and first Born approximation of log amplitude and phase. Yet no derivation of the field probability distribution seems to exist; only an inference. The moments of the field (not just the amplitude) are derived from moment equations, and from these it is shown that extra terms must be identified with phase and amplitude in the customary representation of the field.

© 1978 Optical Society of America

Moment Equations for Waves Propagated in Random Media*

Wilbur P. Brown
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(1) 45-54 (1972)

Variance and covariance of irradiance of a finite beam in extremely strong turbulence*

Myung Hun Lee
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68(2) 167-169 (1978)

Radiation of electromagnetic fields in biaxially anisotropic media*

Jakob J. Stamnest and George C. Sherman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68(4) 502-508 (1978)

Forward Scattering in the Born Approximation*

Leonard S. Taylor and E. Norman Hernandez
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(3) 314-319 (1970)

Fourth Moment of a Wave Propagating in a Random Medium*

W. P. Brown
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(8) 966-971 (1972)