Modes, beams, coherence and orthogonality

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2870, Issue , 1996, Pages 250-259

  Siegman, A E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint coupling; Biorthogonal; Complex hermite Gaussian modes; Eigenmode expansions; Non self adjoint; Nonhermitian

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; EXPANSION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ADJOINTS; BIORTHOGONAL; EIGEN-MODE EXPANSION; HERMITE GAUSSIAN MODES; NON-SELF-ADJOINT; NONHERMITIAN;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 2342517375     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.259904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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