Roux, FS2011-07-122011-07-122011-04Roux, FS. 2011. Anomalous transient behavior from an inhomogeneous initial optical vortex density. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 28(4), pp. 621-6261084-7529http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?uri=josaa-28-4-621http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5092Copyright: 2011 Optical Society of America.Inhomogeneous optical vortex densities can be produced in stochastic optical fields by a combination of coherent and incoherent superposition of speckle fields. During subsequent propagation, the inhomogeneity in the vortex density decays away. However, the decay curves contain oscillatory features that are counterintuitive: for a short while, the inhomogeneity actually increases. The author provides numerical simulations and analytic calculations to study the appearance of the anomalous features in the decay curves.enOpticsOptical vortex densityInhomogeneous optical vortex densitiesArticleRoux, F. (2011). Anomalous transient behavior from an inhomogeneous initial optical vortex density. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5092Roux, FS "Anomalous transient behavior from an inhomogeneous initial optical vortex density." (2011) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5092Roux F. Anomalous transient behavior from an inhomogeneous initial optical vortex density. 2011; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5092.TY - Article AU - Roux, FS AB - Inhomogeneous optical vortex densities can be produced in stochastic optical fields by a combination of coherent and incoherent superposition of speckle fields. During subsequent propagation, the inhomogeneity in the vortex density decays away. However, the decay curves contain oscillatory features that are counterintuitive: for a short while, the inhomogeneity actually increases. The author provides numerical simulations and analytic calculations to study the appearance of the anomalous features in the decay curves. DA - 2011-04 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Optics KW - Optical vortex density KW - Inhomogeneous optical vortex densities LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 SM - 1084-7529 T1 - Anomalous transient behavior from an inhomogeneous initial optical vortex density TI - Anomalous transient behavior from an inhomogeneous initial optical vortex density UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5092 ER -