Relativistic Hermite polynomials and Lorentz beams

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Torre, A ^b   Evans, W A B ^c   Gawhary, O El ^a,d   Severini, S ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d Via G Matteotti 189 ^*  (Italy)

^e Centro Interforze Studi per le Applicazioni Militari   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gaussian optical beams; Hermite polynomials; Paraxial wave equation

Indexed keywords

POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; TRELLIS CODES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CARTESIAN COORDINATES; GAUSSIAN OPTICAL BEAMS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; HERMITE POLYNOMIALS; LORENTZ; OPTICAL FIELDS; PARAXIAL PROPAGATIONS; PARAXIAL WAVE EQUATION;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 58149303038     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/10/11/115007     Document Type: Article

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