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Gaussian beams and the poincare sphere
Author(s) -
Sauter Elmar G.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.4650041118
Subject(s) - stereographic projection , unit sphere , celestial sphere , bilinear interpolation , transformation (genetics) , gaussian , poincaré conjecture , great circle , projection (relational algebra) , mathematics , geometry , physics , mathematical analysis , algorithm , quantum mechanics , biochemistry , statistics , chemistry , astrophysics , gene
Via a stereographic projection we map the transformation law for complex q parameters onto the unit sphere. The bilinear transformations correspond to rotations on the sphere.