PROPAGATION OF PARTIALLY COHERENT BEAMS IN ABSORBING MEDIA

Authors
PALMA C DESANTIS P CINCOTTI G GUATTARI G
Citation
C. Palma et al., PROPAGATION OF PARTIALLY COHERENT BEAMS IN ABSORBING MEDIA, J. mod. opt., 42(5), 1995, pp. 1123-1135
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
J. mod. opt. → ACNP
ISSN journal
09500340
Volume
42
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1123 - 1135
Database
ISI
SICI code
0950-0340(1995)42:5<1123:POPCBI>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
The propagation of Hermite-Gauss beams in absorbing media has been stu died. The beam attenuation has been demonstrated to increase with the beam order index. As a consequence, during the propagation in absorbin g media, the degree of global coherence increases for the whole class of beams that can be expanded into a series of Hermite-Gauss functions . Numerical simulations are presented. An application to multimode las ers is also considered.