Nonparaxial Eigenmodes of Stable Resonators

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 198-207

  Laabs, Holger ^a   Friberg, Ari T ^b,c,d  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Laser modes; Laser resonators; Propagation

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER MODES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

HERMITE-GAUSSIAN MODES;

LASER RESONATORS;

EID: 0033080218     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.740741     Document Type: Article

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