Abstract
On the basis of the truncated second-order moments method in the cylindrical coordinate systems and the expansion of the hard-edged aperture function into a finite sum of complex Gaussian functions, an approximate method used to calculate the generalized beam propagation factor (M2 factor) is proposed. The approximate analytical expressions of the generalized M2 factor for rotationally symmetric hard-edged diffracted flattened Gaussian beams defined by Gori [ Opt. Commun. 107, 335 ( 1994)] and Li [ Opt. Lett. 27, 1007 ( 2002)] are derived, respectively; we show that it depends on the beam order N and the beam truncation parameter δ. Some typical numerical examples are given to illustrate its applications that we compare by using the obtained analytical method and the numerical integration method.
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