PARTIALLY COHERENT PROPAGATION-INVARIANT BEAMS - PASSAGE THROUGH PARAXIAL OPTICAL-SYSTEMS

被引:33
作者
FRIBERG, AT [1 ]
VASARA, A [1 ]
TURUNEN, J [1 ]
机构
[1] HERIOT WATT UNIV, DEPT PHYS, EDINBURGH EH14 4AS, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1991年 / 43卷 / 12期
关键词
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.43.7079
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The cross-spectral-density function characterizing a general propagation-invariant wave field satisfies the associated (planar) paraxial equation. Building on this result, we solve exactly the problem of the passage of such fields through arbitrary lossless optical systems characterized by their ABCD matrices. It is shown that the wave field remains shape invariant in all such systems, but that the property of strict propagation invariance is conserved only if the system is afocal.
引用
收藏
页码:7079 / 7082
页数:4
相关论文
共 24 条
[1]  
[Anonymous], 1986, LASERS
[2]   METAPLECTIC GROUP AND FOURIER OPTICS [J].
BACRY, H ;
CADILHAC, M .
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 1981, 23 (05) :2533-2536
[4]   DIFFRACTION-FREE BEAMS [J].
DURNIN, J ;
MICELI, JJ ;
EBERLY, JH .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1987, 58 (15) :1499-1501
[5]   EXACT-SOLUTIONS FOR NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS .1. THE SCALAR THEORY [J].
DURNIN, J .
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION, 1987, 4 (04) :651-654
[6]   PROPAGATION PARAMETERS OF GAUSSIAN SCHELL-MODEL BEAMS [J].
FRIBERG, AT ;
SUDOL, RJ .
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, 1982, 41 (06) :383-387
[7]   ENERGY-TRANSPORT IN OPTICAL-SYSTEMS WITH PARTIALLY COHERENT-LIGHT [J].
FRIBERG, AT .
APPLIED OPTICS, 1986, 25 (24) :4547-4556
[8]   MODAL EXPANSION FOR J0-CORRELATED SCHELL-MODEL SOURCES [J].
GORI, F ;
GUATTARI, G ;
PADOVANI, C .
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, 1987, 64 (04) :311-316
[9]   FOURIER-OPTICS APPROACH TO THE SYMPLECTIC GROUP [J].
KAUDERER, M .
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION, 1990, 7 (02) :231-239
[10]   LASER BEAMS AND RESONATORS [J].
KOGELNIK, H ;
LI, T .
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, 1966, 54 (10) :1312-+