Far-field radiation of planar Gaussian sources and comparison with solutions based on the parabolic approximation

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2042-2047

  Zeng, Xiaodong ^a   Liang, Changhong ^a   An, Yuying ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Divergence angle; Gaussian beam; Light propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042981842     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002042     Document Type: Article

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