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Deductions from some artificial refractive index profiles based on the elementary functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. Heading
J. Heading
Affiliation:
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
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Abstract

The familiar W.K.B.J. method expresses in terms of elementary functions approximate solutions of second order differential equations in normal form that otherwise have no analytical solutions expressible in terms of the standard elementary or transcendental functions. Proofs of the connexion formulae required to trace these approximate solutions across transition points are usually derived by comparison with known functions such as the Airy integral or Bessel functions, or by an appeal to the Stokes phenomenon in the complex plane. A new device is developed for the synthesis of refractive index profiles with transition points, and yet yielding solutions in terms of the elementary functions. These are then used to derive the W.K.B.J. connexion formula by means of a novel limiting process based on solutions considered only along the real z-axis. The method is obviously more complicated than the more usual approach, but contains special features throwing new light on the connexion formula across a single transition point.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 81 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 121 - 132
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1977

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