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- Title
Modelling the excitation field of an optical resonator.
- Authors
Romanini, Daniele
- Abstract
Assuming the paraxial approximation, we derive efficient recursive expressions for the projection coefficients of a Gaussian beam over the Gauss--Hermite transverse electro-magnetic (TEM) modes of an optical cavity. While previous studies considered cavities with cylindrical symmetry, our derivation accounts for 'simple' astigmatism and ellipticity, which allows to deal with more realistic optical systems. The resulting expansion of the Gaussian beam over the cavity TEM modes provides accurate simulation of the excitation field distribution inside the cavity, in transmission, and in reflection. In particular, this requires including counter-propagating TEM modes, usually neglected in textbooks. As an illustrative application to a complex case, we simulate reentrant cavity configurations where Herriott spots are obtained at cavity output. We show that the case of an astigmatic cavity is also easily modelled. To our knowledge, such relevant applications are usually treated under the simplified geometrical optics approximation, or using heavier numerical methods.
- Subjects
EXCITATION spectrum; OPTICAL resonators; APPROXIMATION theory; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL symmetry; NUMERICAL analysis
- Publication
Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics, 2014, Vol 115, Issue 4, p517
- ISSN
0946-2171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00340-013-5632-x