Intensity-based modal decomposition of optical beams in terms of hermite-gaussian functions

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1086-1091

  Xue, Xin ^a   Wei, Haiqing ^a   Kirk, Andrew G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; LASER MODES; MODAL ANALYSIS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 0004665129     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.001086     Document Type: Article

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