Abstract

A two-dimensional optical field paraxial propagation scheme, in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinate systems, is proposed. This is achieved by extending the method originally proposed by Ladouceur [Opt. Lett. 21, 4 (1996) ] for boundaryless beam propagation to two-dimensional optical wave fields. With this formulation the arbitrary choice of physical window size is avoided by mapping the infinite transverse dimensions into a finite-size domain with an appropriate change of variables, thus avoiding the energy loss through the artificial physical boundary that is usually required for the absorbing or the transparent boundary approach.

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