Propagation Characteristics of Airy-Gaussian Beams Passing through a Misaligned Optical System with Finite Aperture

Lahcen Ez-Zariy, Salima Hennani, Hamid Nebdi, Abdelmajid Belafhal^*

Laboratory of Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco.

DOI: 10.4236/opj.2014.411033                

Abstract

Propagation characteristics of finite Airy-Gaussian beams through an apertured misaligned first-order ABCD optical system are studied. In this work, the generalized Huygens-Fresnel diffraction integral and the expansion of the hard aperture function into a finite sum of complex Gaussian functions are used. The propagation of Airy-Gaussian beam passing through: an unapertured misaligned optical system, an apertured aligned ABCD optical system and an unapertured aligned ABCD optical system are derived here as particular cases of the main finding. Some numerical simulations are performed in the paper.

Keywords

Airy-Gaussian Beams, Huygens-Fresnel Diffraction Integral, Aperture, Misalignment

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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