Artigo
Characterization of multiple reflections and phase space properties for a periodically corrugated waveguide
Fecha
2012-07-06Registro en:
Journal of Physics A-mathematical and Theoretical. Bristol: Iop Publishing Ltd, v. 45, n. 26, p. 11, 2012.
1751-8113
10.1088/1751-8113/45/26/265101
WOS:000305797600002
6130644232718610
0000-0001-8224-3329
Autor
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Resumen
Dynamical properties for a beam light inside a sinusoidally corrugated waveguide are discussed in this paper. The beam is confined inside two-mirrors: one is flat and the other one is sinusoidally corrugated. The evolution of the system is described by the use of a two-dimensional and nonlinear mapping. The phase space of the system is of mixed type therefore exhibiting a large chaotic sea, periodic islands and invariant KAM curves. A careful discussion of the numerical method to solve the transcendental equations of the mapping is given. We characterize the probability of observing successive reflections of the light by the corrugated mirror and show that it is scaling invariant with respect to the amplitude of the corrugation. Average properties of the chaotic sea are also described by the use of scaling arguments.