Formalism of operators for Laguerre-Gauss modes

2011/11/03 by da Silva, A. L. F., Celeste, A. T. B., Pazetti, M. +1
#FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1111.0886

Abstract

In this work apply the algebra of operators of quantum mechanics in the Helmholtz wave equation in cylindrical coordinates in paraxial approximation to describe the raising and lowering operators for the Laguerre-Gauss modes.

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