Operator Methods In Physical Optics

David Stoler

doi:10.1117/12.934074

7 December 1982 Operator Methods In Physical Optics

David Stoler

Proceedings Volume 0358, Applications of Mathematics in Modern Optics; (1982) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934074
Event: 26th Annual Technical Symposium, 1982, San Diego, United States

Abstract

This paper contains a treatment of paraxial wave optics which is expressed in terms of operators acting on vectors in an abstract space. The abstract vectors represent the electromagnetic field (in scalar approximation). The effects of propagation, reflection, and refraction, etc., are implemented by operators acting on the abstract field vectors. This leads to an operator algebraic formulation of paraxial wave optics.

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David Stoler "Operator Methods In Physical Optics", Proc. SPIE 0358, Applications of Mathematics in Modern Optics, (7 December 1982); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934074

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