Exact analytical expansion of an off-axis Gaussian laser beam using the translation theorems for the vector spherical harmonics

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1023-1033

  Boyde, Lars ^a   Chalut, Kevin J ^a   Guck, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EXPANSION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GEOPHYSICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER BEAMS; LASER THEORY; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SPHERES;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; GAUSSIAN LASER BEAM; GENERALIZED LORENZ-MIE THEORY; NUMERICAL QUADRATURE; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; VECTOR SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ARTICLE; LASER; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79952161035     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.001023     Document Type: Article

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