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Analytical solutions for the electromagnetic fields of flattened and annular Gaussian laser modes. I. Small F-number laser focusing

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Many laser interaction models assume that incident focused laser fields are Gaussian and use either the approximate TEM00 series model or the exact integral Gaussian angular-spectrum solution. Many practical laser systems, however, produce flat-top transverse intensity profiles, and indeed, such profiles are often desired. Here, an exact, integral solution is derived for all of the vector components having a general flattened Gaussian profile using the angular-spectrum method. This solution includes the pure and annular Gaussian modes as special cases. The resulting integrals are solved for tight focusing conditions exactly by making use of a Fourier–Gegenbauer expansion. This technique follows closely that of Sepke and Umstadter [Opt. Lett. 31, 1447 (2006)] but, by redefining the expansion coefficients, the simplicity of the model is greatly enhanced and the computation time reduced by roughly a factor of 2 beyond the 2 orders of magnitude improvement obtained previously. This series solution is stable at all points and converges after S20w0 terms, where w0 is the 1e waist normalized to the laser wavelength.

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