Decentered Gaussian beams, ray bundles, and Bessel-Gauss beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1116-1120

  Palma, Claudio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bessel Gauss beams; Gaussian beams; Geometrical optics; Ray matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001728034     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001116     Document Type: Article

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