Application of the extended Jones matrix formalism for higher-order transverse modes to laser resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 21540-21550

  Voss, Andreas ^a   Abdou Ahmed, Marwan ^a   Graf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER RESONATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; EXTENDED JONES MATRIX; HERMITE-GAUSSIAN MODES; HIGHER ORDER; JONES MATRIX; SENSITIVITY TO VARIATIONS; TEM; TRANSVERSE MODE;

RESONATORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSICS;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSICS;

EID: 78049503790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021540     Document Type: Article

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