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Gaussian Laser Beams via Oblate Spheroidal Waves

Authors	Kirk T. McDonald
Categories	physics.class-ph
ArXiv ID	physics/0312024
URL	https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0312024

Abstract

We deduce a set of circularly polarized Gaussian laser beam modes via a separation-of-variables solution to the Helmholtz wave equation in oblate spheriodal coordinates. On transforming to cylindrical coordinates these become the well-known Gaussian-Laguerre modes.

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