Airy-Gauss beams and their transformation by paraxial optical systems

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16719-16728

  Bandres, Miguel A ^a   Gutiérrez Vega, Julio C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

AIRY WAVE PACKETS; AIRY-GAUSS BEAMS; PARAXIAL OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 37149015716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016719     Document Type: Article

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