A simple method for treating diffractive propagation from a laser with diagnostic optics
Abstract
The diffractive propagation of a complex laser beam through a multi-element optical system is considered. It is shown that the problem can be easily reduced to propagation of a quasi-collimated laser beam in free space through a distance d sub eff determined by successive applications of a simple lens equation.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- November 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979smtd.rept.....J
- Keywords:
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- Diffraction Patterns;
- Electromagnetic Radiation;
- Lenses;
- Light Beams;
- Wave Diffraction;
- Fresnel Reflectors;
- Interferometry;
- Lasers;
- Mirrors;
- Wave Propagation;
- Optics