Numerical methods applicable to laser refraction through a caustic

DOI10.1002/CNM.1630080107MaRDI QIDQ3989493zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carl E. Pearson, Walter H. Christiansen

Publication date 28 June 1992

Published in Communications in Applied Numerical Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.1630080107

zbMATH Keywords

caustic surfaceHelmholtz equationlaser beam propagationray equationwave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Wave equation (35L05) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60)

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