First-order optical systems with real eigenvalues |
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Authors: | Martin J. Bastiaans Tatiana Alieva |
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Affiliation: | a Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Faculteit Elektrotechniek, Postbus 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands b Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid 28040, Spain |
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Abstract: | It is shown that a lossless first-order optical system whose real symplectic ray transformation matrix can be diagonalized and has only real eigenvalues, is similar to a separable hyperbolic expander in the sense that the respective ray transformation matrices are related by means of a similarity transformation. Moreover, it is shown how eigenfunctions of such a system can be determined, based on the fact that simple powers are eigenfunctions of a separable magnifier. As an example, a set of eigenfunctions of a hyperbolic expander is determined and the resemblance between these functions and the well-known Hermite-Gauss modes is exploited. |
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Keywords: | 02.30.Nw 02.30.Uu 42.30.Kq 42.60.Jf |
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