Numerical propagation of partially coherent laser beams through optical systems |
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Authors: | H Gross |
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Institution: | Carl Zeiss, Department FO-EM, 73446 Oberkochen, Germany |
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Abstract: | The propagation of partially coherent beams through optical systems is computed numerically in one transverse dimension. The optical system is divided into different elementary segments, through which the propagation of light can be calculated by appropriate operators, working on the coherence function or the Wigner distribution function respectively. For the necessary changes between these two functions describing the partially coherent beams, the use of the remarkable z-transform seems to be an advantage. With this algorithm the grid and the resolution in the spatial frequency domain can be arbitrarily chosen in contrast to the usual Fourier transform, the influence of phase aberrations on the focusability of Gauss-Schell model beams is discussed as an application example of the numerical model. With the help of this tool, practical beam guiding systems can be simulated for use with multimode laser radiation. |
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Keywords: | beam propagation partial coherence Wigner function numerical computation |
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