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Fluctuation of Transmission Coefficient of Light in the One-Dimensional Random Media

1988; Physical Society of Japan; Volume: 57; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1143/jpsj.57.3391

1347-4073

Jun-ichi Igarashi,

Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry

Statistical fluctuation in the transmission of light is numerically studied in the one-dimensional media with random components in dielectric tensors. The distribution of eigenvalues concerning the logarithm of the product of the transfer matrix and its conjugate transpose is studied in connection to the random-matrix theory. The repulsion of the eigenvalues is found to suppress strongly the fluctuation when birefringence and optical activity are introduced into the system. The interference effects analogous to the Aharonov-Bohm effects are also considered on an interferometer using Berry's phase. The transmission coefficient periodic in Berry's phase is studied on the statistical distribution of the Fourier coefficients.