AUTOCORRELATIONS OF RANDOM FRACTAL APERTURES AND PHASE SCREENS

Abstract

We introduce a new product representation for general random binary fractal apertures defined by removing voids from Euclidean space, and use it to derive a simple closed-form expression for ensemble-averaged correlations. Power-law scaling at short distance follows almost immediately. Similar techniques provide easy constructions of objects with fractional Brownian short-distance behavior for phase screens and other applications.