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Mode Coupling in First-Order Optics

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Abstract

A simple procedure is described to obtain the modes of propagation in square-law lens-like media. This procedure consists of evaluating the geometrical-optics field created by a point source at the input plane of an optical system (called mode-generating system) with nonuniform losses. An expansion of the field in power series of the coordinates of the point source gives the modes of propagation. In the case of optical resonators, the mode-generating system is described by the modal matrix of the resonator round-trip ray matrix. This representation of modes by point sources allows the coupling factor between two modes with different parameters (beam radii, wave-front curvatures, and axes) to be evaluated without integration. Only matrix algebra is used. In the general three-dimensional case, the coupling factor is expressed as a product of Gauss functions and Hermite polynomials in four complex variables. The quantities introduced are generalized ray invariants.

© 1971 Optical Society of America

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