Exact nonparaxial propagation of a hollow Gaussian beam

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• JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2044-2049 (2009)
• Deng, Dongmei; Guo, Qi
• A group of virtual sources that generate a hollow Gaussian wave are determined on the basis of the superposition of beams. A closed-form expression is derived for the hollow Gaussian...

Beat wave interferometry for measuring relative motion

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2292-2294 (2009)
• Christov, C I
• A new approach to detecting relative motion is proposed based on measuring the beat frequency. A formula is derived for the beat frequency as a function of the speed of translation....

Free-space asymptotic far-field series

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2410-2417 (2009)
• Borghi, Riccardo; Alonso, Miguel A
• A systematic procedure for deriving the complete asymptotic series in inverse powers of the distance from the origin of free-space 2D and 3D, scalar and vectorial, monochromatic...

Fabry-Perot resonances in birefringent YAlO3 analyzed at terahertz frequencies

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3520-3522 (2009)
• Scheffler, Marc; Ostertag, Julia P; Dressel, Martin
• We present transmission and phase measurements on a birefringent YAlO₃ crystal that is illuminated with linearly polarized terahertz radiation in a broad frequency range...

Unified perfectly matched layer for finite-difference time-domain modeling of dispersive optical materials

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.21179-21190 (2009)
• Udagedara, Indika; Premaratne, Malin; Rukhlenko, Ivan D; Hattori, Haroldo T; Agrawal, Govind P
• Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations of any electromagnetic problem require truncation of an often-unbounded physical region by an electromagnetically bounded region by...

Hermite-cosine-Gaussian beams propagating in uniaxial crystals orthogonal to the optical axis

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2480-2487 (2009)
• Tang, Bin
• The propagation of polarized Hermite-cosine-Gaussian (HCosG) beams in uniaxial crystals orthogonal to the optical axis is investigated. Analytical formulas for a HCosG beam...

Full-wave generalizations of the fundamental Gaussian beam

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2515-2520 (2009)
• Seshadri, S R
• The basic full wave corresponding to the fundamental Gaussian beam was discovered for the outwardly propagating wave in a half-space by the introduction of a source in the complex...

Equivalent configurations of optical 
transformation media

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.21326-21335 (2009)
• Chen, Tungyang; Cheng, Shen-Wen; Weng, Chung-Ning
• We demonstrate that a medium consisting of two adjoining distinct layers of transformation materials, corresponding respectively to two linear coordinate transformations, can behave...

Temperature-dependent Goos-Hänchen shift on the interface of metal/dielectric composites

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21433-21441 (2009)
• Zhao, Bin; Gao, Lei
• The temperature-dependent Goos-Hänchen shift (GHS) for an electromagnetic wave reflected from a metal/dielectric composite material is investigated. With the stationary-phase method,...

Analysis of the measurement of polarization-shaped ultrashort laser pulses by tomographic ultrafast retrieval of transverse light E fields

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• JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2363-2369 (2009)
• Xu, Lina; Schlup, Philip; Masihzadeh, Omid; Bartels, Randy A; Trebino, Rick
• We consider in detail the technique of tomographic ultrafast retrieval of transverse light E fields (TURTLE) for measuring the evolution of an arbitrary, potentially complex, and...

Nondiffracting wave properties in radially and azimuthally symmetric optical axis phase plates

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3641-3643 (2009)
• Vaveliuk, Pablo
• A wave propagation analysis carried out in two kinds of q-plates having topological unit charge (1-plates), one plate with a radial orientation of the optical axis and the other with...

Characterizing topological charge of optical vortices by using an annular aperture

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3686-3688 (2009)
• Guo, Cheng-Shan; Lu, Lei-Lei; Wang, Hui-Tian
• We explore the spatial frequency property of the far-field diffraction intensity pattern of an optical vortex after passing through an annular aperture in detail. The result reveals...