Propagating free-space nonparaxial beams

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

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3297-3302

  Vaveliuk, Pablo ^a   Zebende, Gilney F ^a,b   Moret, Marcelo A ^a,b   Ruiz, Beatriz ^c  

^a Fundacao Visconde de Cairu   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES OPTICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

BESSEL-GAUSSIAN BEAM; NONPARAXIAL BEAM; TRANSVERSE FIELD STRUCTURE;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 36949032928     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.003297     Document Type: Article

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