Limits of the paraxial approximation in laser beams

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 927-929

  Vaveliuk, Pablo ^a,b   Ruiz, Beatriz ^c   Lencina, Alberto ^c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^b Fundacao Visconde de Cairu   (Brazil)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES OPTICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL GAUSSIAN BEAMS; FREE SPACE; INTEGRAL CRITERION; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33947371229     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.000927     Document Type: Article

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