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This work was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the Kentucky Space Grant Consortium under subgrant WKU 521753-96-04 and by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY94-15583.
Published In
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science and Vision
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-1998
Subjects
Gaussian beams, Optical wave guides -- Mathematics, Electromagnetic waves
Abstract
Hermite–sinusoidal-Gaussian solutions to the wave equation have recently been obtained. In the limit of large Hermite–Gaussian beam size, the sinusoidal factors are dominant and reduce to the conventional modes of a rectangular waveguide. In the opposite limit the beams reduce to the familiar Hermite–Gaussian form. The propagation of these beams is examined in detail, and resonators are designed that will produce them. As an example, a special resonator is designed to produce hyperbolic-sine-Gaussian beams. This ring resonator contains a hyperbolic-cosine-Gaussian apodized aperture. The beam mode has finite energy and is perturbation stable.
DOI
10.1364/JOSAA.15.002425
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/8220
Citation Details
Anthony A. Tovar and Lee W. Casperson, "Production and propagation of Hermite-sinusoidal-Gaussian laser beams," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15, 2425-2432 (1998).
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