1980/02/01 by M. Nazarathy, Moshe Nazarathy, J. Shamir +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
paper · doi:10.1364/josa.70.000150
Fresnel diffraction is described by replacing the Fresnel-Kirchhoff integral, the lens transfer factor, and other operations by operators. The resulting operator algebra leads to the description of Fourier optics in a simple and compact way, bypassing the cumbersome integral calculus. Aberration effects and Gaussian beam illumination are also treated as a simple extension of the present theory.