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Entropy, purity and optical hysteresis in markovian optical modes
Abstract:
We describe the synthesis of optical modes whose axial structure follows a random tandem array of Bessel beams of integer order. The array follows fluctuations of Markov-chain type and the amplitude values for each beam are linked to a sequence of random vectors. As a prototype, we describe the synthesis of optical fields for Markov-chain type Ehrenfest. This process models the thermodynamic equilibrium and then it can be related to the evolution and stability of optical systems, in this way, it offers a similitude with partially coherent processes where the coherence degree is now distributed between all the compounds of the resulting random vector. The matrix representation for the stochastic process allows incorporating entropy properties and the calculus of the purity for the optical field. This constitutes the basis to describe the interference between markovian modes. When the set of markovian modes type Ehrenfest reaches a stable configuration they become indistinguishability non-conservative optical field having associated hysteresis features. Computer simulations are presented.
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