Circular beams
Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp. 177-179 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.33.000177
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Abstract
A very general beam solution of the paraxial wave equation in circular cylindrical coordinates is presented. We call such a field a circular beam (CiB). The complex amplitude of the CiB is described by either the Whittaker functions or the confluent hypergeometric functions and is characterized by three parameters that are complex in the most general situation. The propagation through complex ABCD optical systems and the conditions for square integrability are studied in detail. Special cases of the CiB are the standard, elegant, and generalized Laguerre–Gauss beams; Bessel–Gauss beams; hypergeometric beams; hypergeometric–Gaussian beams; fractional-order elegant Laguerre–Gauss beams; quadratic Bessel–Gauss beams; and optical vortex beams.
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OCIS Codes
(070.2580) Fourier optics and signal processing : Paraxial wave optics
(070.2590) Fourier optics and signal processing : ABCD transforms
(260.1960) Physical optics : Diffraction theory
(350.5500) Other areas of optics : Propagation
ToC Category:
Physical Optics
History
Original Manuscript: November 8, 2007
Revised Manuscript: December 4, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: December 5, 2007
Published: January 11, 2008
Citation
Miguel A. Bandres and Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega, "Circular beams," Opt. Lett. 33, 177-179 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-33-2-177
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