Analogies between light optics and charged-particle optics
Optics
2007-05-23 v2 Accelerator Physics
General Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The close analogy between geometrical optics and the classical theories of charged-particle beam optics have been known for a very long time. In recent years, quantum theories of charged-particle beam optics have been presented with the very expected feature of wavelength-dependent effects. With the current development of non-traditional prescriptions of Helmholtz and Maxwell optics respectively, accompanied with the wavelength-dependent effects, it is seen that the analogy between the two systems persists. A brief account of the various prescriptions and the parallel of the analogies is presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0210028,
title = {Analogies between light optics and charged-particle optics},
author = {Sameen Ahmed Khan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0210028},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX 10 pages, corrected eprint numbers in two references, http://www.pd.infn.it/~khan/ http://www.imsc.ernet.in/~jagan/