Propagation of a decentered elliptical Gaussian beam through apertured aligned and misaligned paraxial optical systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5758-5766

  Cai, Yangjian ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; TENSORS;

APERTURE FUNCTION; DECENTERED ELLIPTICAL HERMITE-GAUSSIAN BEAM (DEHGB); PARAXIAL OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749829926     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005758     Document Type: Article

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