Physical foundations of quantum electronics

A study of radiation propagation in a medium with quadratic inhomogeneity

A. A. Pikulev

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Federal Nuclear Center — All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics", Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region

Abstract: The propagation of Hermitian beams in a medium with a distributed quadratic inhomogeneity is studied and is shown that any solution can be represented as a function of some particular solution. This is accomplished by establishing a one-to-one correspondence between optical fields in a homogeneous medium and in a medium with an arbitrary quadratic inhomogeneity. The stability of optical resonators is studied and the condition for their stability is found. Several solutions are found using the method developed.

PACS: 42.25.Bs

Received: 19.10.2000
Revised: 07.02.2001

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2001, 31:9, 781–786

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