Transmission through cutoffs and resonances in the double phase‐integral approximation

1984 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 2655-2661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej A. Skorupski
Keyword(s):  
Integral Approximation ◽  
Double Phase ◽  
Phase Integral

Waves near Stokes lines

1990 ◽  
Vol 427 (1873) ◽  
pp. 265-280 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Error Function ◽  
Divergent Series ◽  
Stokes Line ◽  
Stokes Phenomenon ◽  
Total Change ◽  
Integral Approximation ◽  
Reflected Waves ◽  
Stokes Lines ◽  
Phase Integral

The large- k asymptotics of d 2 u ( z )/d z 2 = k 2 R 2 ( z ) u ( z ) are studied near a Stokes line ( ω ≡ ∫ z z 0 R d z real, where z 0 is a zero of R 2 ( z ), of any order), on which there is greatest disparity between the dominant and subdominant exponential waves in the phase-integral (WKB) approximations. The aim is to establish precisely how the multiplier b _ of the subdominant wave varies across the Stokes line. Although b _ always has a total change proportional to i times the multiplier of the dominant wave (the Stokes phenomenon), the form of the change depends on the convention used to define the two waves. The optimal convention, for which the variation is maximally compact and smooth, is to define them by the phase-integral approximation truncated at its least term, whose order is proportional to k and therefore large (‘asymptotics of asymptotics’). Then the variation of b _ is proportional to the error function of the natural Stokes-crossing variable Im ω √( k /Re ω ). This result is obtained without resumming divergent series (thereby avoiding ‘asymptotics of asymptotics of asymptotics’). An application is given, to the birth of exponentially weak reflected waves in media with smoothly varying refractive index.

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