Far-field properties and beam quality of vectorial Hermite-Laguerre-Gaussian beams beyond the paraxial approximation

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1046-1053

  Kang, Xiaoping ^a,b   He, Zhong ^b   Lü, Baida ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Physics Qiong Zhou University ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Power in the bucket (PIB); Vectorial nonparaxial Hermite Laguerre Gaussian (HLG) beam; z Component of the time averaged Poynting vector

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LASER OPTICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VECTORS;

BEAM QUALITY; POWER IN THE BUCKET (PIB); VECTORIAL NONPARAXIAL HERMITE-LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN (HLG) BEAM;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33845217648     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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