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Master equation approach to propagation of radiation through random media

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Master and Fokker-Planck equations are obtained for radiation propagating through a random medium using the q-c-number correspondence of the coherent state technique. The corresponding equation for the antinormal characteristic function is solved by means of the method of characteristics. The master equation method and the recently developed method based on the Heisenberg equations and quantum characteristic function are shown to be equivalent. Some existence problems for the Glauber-Sudarshan weighting function are discussed. New light is thrown on approximations in the photocounting statistics used earlier.

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  1. Laboratory of Optics, Palacký University, Leninova 26, 771 46, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia

    J. Peřina & V. Peřinová

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The authors thank Dr. L. Mišta for discussions and for some verifying calculations.

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Peřina, J., Peřinová, V. Master equation approach to propagation of radiation through random media. Czech J Phys 25, 605–618 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01591017

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