Complex ABCD matrices: an analytical tool for analyzing light propagation involving stochastic processes

Steen Gruner Hanson; Harold T. Yura

doi:10.1117/12.527034

19 November 2003 Complex ABCD matrices: an analytical tool for analyzing light propagation involving stochastic processes

Steen Gruner Hanson, Harold T. Yura

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Proceedings Volume 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.527034
Event: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, 2002, Florence, Italy

Abstract

A formulation of light beam propagation through any complex optical system that can be described by an ABCD ray-transfer matrix will be given. Within the framework of complex ABCD-optical systems, the optical set-up itself is approximated, primarily by replacing all apertures with soft apertures having a Gaussian intensity transmission function, whereby a new matrix -- now complex -- can be added to the well-known suite of real-valued matrices, cf. Eq. 1.

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Steen Gruner Hanson and Harold T. Yura "Complex ABCD matrices: an analytical tool for analyzing light propagation involving stochastic processes", Proc. SPIE 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.527034

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