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This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants ECS-9422572 and PHY-9415583.
Published In
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science and Vision
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-1997
Subjects
Electromagnetic waves, Gaussian beams, Wave guides
Abstract
Sinusoidal-Gaussian beam solutions are derived for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in free space and in media having at most quadratic transverse variations of the index of refraction and the gain or loss. The resulting expressions are also valid for propagation through other real and complex lens elements and systems that can be represented in terms of complex beam matrices. The solutions are in the form of sinusoidal functions of complex argument times a conventional Gaussian beam factor. In the limit of large Gaussian beam size, the sine and cosine factors of the beams are dominant and reduce to the conventional modes of a rectangular waveguide. In the opposite limit the beams reduce to the familiar fundamental Gaussian form. Alternate hyperbolic-sinusoidal-Gaussian beam solutions are also found.
DOI
10.1364/JOSAA.14.003341
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/8219
Citation Details
Lee W. Casperson, Dennis G. Hall, and Anthony A. Tovar, "Sinusoidal-Gaussian beams in complex optical systems," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14, 3341-3348 (1997).
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* At the time of publication Lee W. Casperson was affiliated with University of Rochester