Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Fourier transform in metaxial geometric optics

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

The phase space of rays in geometric optics has a position coordinate on the screen that is unbounded, while its canonically conjugate momentum coordinate is bound by the local refractive index of the medium. The classical Fourier transform is a rotation of phase space by ½π; this is possible only in the Heisenberg-Weyl plane 2N of classical mechanics or, locally, near the optical axis and center. A point map of optical momentum, however, permits a definition of an optical Fourier transform that is global and canonical and matches the classical Fourier transform in the paraxial regime.

© 1991 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Metaxial correction of fractional Fourier transformers

Kurt Bernardo Wolf and Guillermo Krötzsch
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 16(4) 821-830 (1999)

Refracting surfaces between fibers

Kurt Bernardo Wolf
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8(9) 1389-1398 (1991)

Fractional Fourier transformers through reflection

Kurt Bernardo Wolf and Guillermo Krötzsch
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19(6) 1191-1196 (2002)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Figures (3)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Equations (33)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved