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Nodal-line dynamics via exact polynomial solutions for coherent waves traversing aberrated imaging systems

Optics 2019-11-19 v1

Abstract

We obtain exact polynomial solutions for two-dimensional coherent complex scalar fields propagating through arbitrary aberrated shift-invariant linear imaging systems. These are used to model nodal-line dynamics of coherent fields output by such systems.

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@article{arxiv.1711.04218,
  title  = {Nodal-line dynamics via exact polynomial solutions for coherent waves traversing aberrated imaging systems},
  author = {David M. Paganin and Mario A. Beltran and Timothy C. Petersen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.04218},
  year   = {2019}
}