Laguerre-Gaussian Modes of Paraxial Wave Equation
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Laguerre–Gaussian modes are solutions of the paraxial wave equation. They have circular symmetry and can be written in terms of the Laguerre polynomials , where
is the radial index and
is the azimuthal index.
Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (May 2014)
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The paraxial equation in cylindrical coordinates is given by
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A simple separable solution can be written in the form
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