Unified approach to paraxial propagation in uniform media and media with linear or quadratic refractive index distribution

2024/05/31 by N. Korneev, I. Ramos-Prieto, Korneev, N. +9 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Photonic and Optical Devices

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.20548

openalex publication_date 2024/05/31 · openalex created_date 2024/06/04 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We report explicit equations and matrix representations that allow simple calculation between three different media (free space, linear and quadratic refractive index distributions) for paraxial light propagation.

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