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Average number and probability distribution of caustics in randomly inhomogeneous medium and behind a random phase screen

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Formulas are derived for the average cross-sectional caustic density and the probability density of the distances to caustics behind a random phase screen. The constancy of the average number of caustics at great distances behind the screen as the probability density approaches zero is explained.

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  1. E. Z. Gribova
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  2. A. I. Saichev
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Nizhny Novgorod Architecture and Construction Academy. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 471–478, April, 1994.

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Gribova, E.Z., Saichev, A.I. Average number and probability distribution of caustics in randomly inhomogeneous medium and behind a random phase screen. Radiophys Quantum Electron 37, 293–298 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046030

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