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Generalized Beam Matrices. Iii. Application To Diffraction Analysis, Lee W. Casperson, Anthony A. Tovar
Generalized Beam Matrices. Iii. Application To Diffraction Analysis, Lee W. Casperson, Anthony A. Tovar
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations
In analogy with Huygen’s wavelets a new method based on Gaussian beamlets is used to develop a conventional diffraction integral formalism for paraxial optical systems representable by complex 2×2 ABCD Gaussian beam matrices. This method, along with a new phase parameter transformation, is then used to produce a new diffraction integral for studying the propagation of light beams with arbitrary spatial profiles through much more general misaligned complex optical systems representable by 3×3 ABCDGH beam matrices.