TY - JOUR
AB - PREFACE The growth of laser technology has led to the development of a new class of devices - electrooptical laser devices. This has made it necessary for designers to calculate optical systems that transform laser radiation. Because of the specific characteristics of laser radiation, the laws governing its propagation and interaction with optical media and optical elements differ from those governing ordinary electromagnetic radiation. The effectiveness of the practical application of lasers largely depends on how accurately the properties of lasers as sources of radiation are taken into account in the calculation of optical systems. The computational principles for optical systems were formulated more than a century ago. The system of concepts and the mathematical apparatus employed were based mainly on applied geometric optics. The laws governing the formation of laser beams were first described in the language of wave optics, where the concepts and mathematical apparatus, like the results obtained, dif- fer from those of the traditional theory of optical systems. The formulas derived differ from the formulas describing parallel and homocentric beams. As a result it was believed that geometric optics is inapplicable here. This belief is still held, even in scientific- technical publications, though the applicability 
TI - Computational methods for laser optical systems design
JO - Journal of Russian Laser Research
DO - 10.1007/BF01120453
DA - 2005-01-24
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/computational-methods-for-laser-optical-systems-design-4SzLT2vqIE
SP - 321
EP - 430
VL - 9
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -