Anisotropic beam spreading in uniaxial crystals

Optics Communications

Volumn 231, Issue 1-6, 2004, Pages 79-92

  Ciattoni, Alessandro ^a,b   Palma, Claudio ^c,d  

^a Materia Unità dell'Aquila   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d FIS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Diffraction

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFRACTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; VECTORS;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0942267831     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2003.12.025     Document Type: Article

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29. This omission is not expected to be a serious shortcoming. In a previous paper [20], we investigated reflection and transmission at the interface separating a homogeneous medium and a uniaxial crystal whose optical axis is orthogonal to the interface, showing that, in paraxial regime, the transmitted field is proportional to the incident one. Therefore, we expect a similar proportionality relation to hold also in the present case where the optical axis is parallel to the interface.