Pseudo-symmetric beams: generation, propagation properties, and measurements

George Nemes; Julio Serna; Bernd Eppich; Chunyu Gao; Horst Weber

doi:10.1117/12.355032

19 July 1999 Pseudo-symmetric beams: generation, propagation properties, and measurements

George Nemes, Julio Serna, Bernd Eppich, Chunyu Gao, Horst Weber

Proceedings Volume 3749, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.355032
Event: ICO XVIII 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, 1999, San Francisco, CA, United States

Abstract

We define the pseudo-symmetrical (PS), or the non-rotating general astigmatic beams, and investigate them theoretically and experimentally. We show that to any type of symmetrical beam, such as stigmatic, aligned simple astigmatic, or rotated simple astigmatic, corresponds a type of PS beam, which we call pseudo-stigmatic, pseudo-aligned simple astigmatic, and pseudo-rotated simple astigmatic, respectively. The PS beams behave identical to the symmetrical ones as long as only rotationally symmetric optical systems are involved, and as long as the second- order moments method is used to characterize these beams. We show how to characterize the PS beams using this method, how to generate them, we study their propagation properties, and show how to identify and measure them in comparison to the measurement of the symmetrical beams.

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George Nemes, Julio Serna, Bernd Eppich, Chunyu Gao, and Horst Weber "Pseudo-symmetric beams: generation, propagation properties, and measurements", Proc. SPIE 3749, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, (19 July 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.355032

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