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Mirrors, resonators

Gaussian optics of resonators containing non-Gaussian optical components

O. O. Silichev


Abstract: A new method for analysis of non-Gaussian optical systems involves their replacement with approximately equivalent Gaussian systems. An algorithm for deriving an equivalent system is proposed. The method is used to analyze the diffraction of a Gaussian beam by an aperture with a partly smoothed edge and the behavior of the fundamental mode of a resonator containing such an aperture. The conditions under which the fundamental mode of a resonator with a finite aperture can be regarded quite accurately as Gaussian are formulated.

UDC: 535.417.2

PACS: 42.60.Da, 42.60.Jf, 42.79.Ag

Received: 12.04.1989

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1990, 20:6, 715–719

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