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Mode mapping in paraxial lossless optics

Author(s) -

Tatiana Alieva,

Martin J. Bastiaans

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

optics letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 272

eISSN - 1071-2763

pISSN - 0146-9592

DOI - 10.1364/ol.30.001461

Subject(s) - paraxial approximation , optics , orthonormal basis , physics , gaussian , hermite polynomials , laguerre polynomials , orthonormality , quantum mechanics , beam (structure)

A Collins transformation maps an orthonormal set of Hermite-Gaussian modes into an orthonormal set of beams with a Gaussian envelope. Among these beams are Laguerre-Gaussian beams and the recently introduced Hermite-Laguerre-Gaussian beams. Compact expressions for the complex field amplitudes of these modes are derived. The results obtained are useful for description of the propagation of light through first-order optical systems, for the solution of the phase-retrieval problem by noninterferometric techniques, and for the design of mode converters and information processing systems.

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