Propagation law and quasi-invariance properties of the truncated second-order moment of a diffracted laser beam

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Natural Sciences, Physics, Computational Electromagnetics +13

Beam propagation and the ABCD ray matrices

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Averaged description of wave beams in linear and nonlinear media (the method of moments)

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Defining the effective radius of curvature for a nonideal optical beam

A. E. Siegman · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics · 1991 · 174 citations

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Complex beam parameter and ABCD law for non-Gaussian and nonspherical light beams

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Natural Sciences, Physics, Optics +15