Stable aggregates of flexible element link rays and waves

Miguel A Alonso; Gregory W Forbes

doi:10.1117/12.507138

8 January 2004 Stable aggregates of flexible element link rays and waves

Miguel A Alonso, Gregory W Forbes

Proceedings Volume 5185, Nonimaging Optics: Maximum Efficiency Light Transfer VII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.507138
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Stable superpositions of elemental ray contributions give new capabilities for the ray-based analysis of optical fields and systems. These field estimates are constructed so that the results are effectively independent of the width of the field elements associated with each ray. The elements are thus free to be, more or less arbitrarily, localized or distributed at will. Since such elements thus need not disperse under diffraction, the new scheme is not a traditional beam summation method. In fact, it is this definitive property that leads to remarkable simplifications, and to significantly more accurate ray-based wave models. With this approach, error estimates become easily accessible, and a asymptotic treatment can finally be developed for fundamental processes such as refraction and diffraction.

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Miguel A Alonso and Gregory W Forbes "Stable aggregates of flexible element link rays and waves", Proc. SPIE 5185, Nonimaging Optics: Maximum Efficiency Light Transfer VII, (8 January 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.507138

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