General approach for representing and propagating partially coherent terahertz fields with application to Gabor basis sets

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

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 786-796

  Berry, Rachel H ^a   Hobson, Michael P ^a   Withington, Stafford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MODAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COHERENT TERAHERTZ FIELDS; GABOR BASIS SETS; GAUSSIAN-HERMITE MODES; VAN CITTERT-ZERNIKE THEOREM;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 2342484348     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.000786     Document Type: Article

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