Abstract
The evolution of a complex beam width parameter g describing focusing or defocusing of a paraxial Gaussian beam is considered as the cause of an additional topological (Berry) phase of the electromagnetic field associated with the beam. It is pointed out that the well-known Gouy phase is a special case of such a phase that should arise in general in all symplectic systems.
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