Can the Wigner transform of a two-dimensional rotationally symmetric beam be fully recovered from the Wigner transform of its one-dimensional approximation?
D. Dragoman, Can the Wigner transform of a two-dimensional rotationally symmetric beam be fully recovered from the Wigner transform of its one-dimensional approximation?, OPTICS LETT, 25(5), 2000, pp. 281-283
It is shown that the full four-dimensional Wigner transform of a coherent,
rotationally symmetric light beam can be completely recovered by measuremen
t, in one step, of the Wigner transform of an equivalent one-dimensional li
ght beam. The method of generating this equivalent light beam from a two-di
mensional circular (C) 2000 Optical Society of America light beam is presen
ted. OCIS codes: 070.0070, 070.4560, 110.0110, 110.2990.