Gaussian optics is a technique in geometrical optics that describes the behaviour of light rays in optical systems by using the paraxial approximation, in which only rays which make small angles with the optical axis of the system are considered.[1] In this approximation, trigonometric functions can be expressed as linear functions of the angles. Gaussian optics applies to systems in which all the optical surfaces are either flat or are portions of a sphere. In this case, simple explicit formulae can be given for parameters of an imaging system such as focal length, magnification and brightness, in terms of the geometrical shapes and material properties of the constituent elements.
Gaussian optics is named after mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss, who showed that an optical system can be characterized by a series of cardinal points, which allow one to calculate its optical properties.[2]
^A. Lipson, S.G. Lipson, H. Lipson, Optical Physics, 4th edition, 2010, University Press, Cambridge, UK, p. 51.
^W.J. Smith, Modern Optical Engineering, 2007, McGraw-Hill, p. 22.
Gaussianoptics is a technique in geometrical optics that describes the behaviour of light rays in optical systems by using the paraxial approximation...
In optics, a Gaussian beam is an idealized beam of electromagnetic radiation whose amplitude envelope in the transverse plane is given by a Gaussian function;...
In mathematics, a Gaussian function, often simply referred to as a Gaussian, is a function of the base form f ( x ) = exp ( − x 2 ) {\displaystyle f(x)=\exp(-x^{2})}...
of f {\displaystyle f} at a {\displaystyle a} . Gaussianoptics is a technique in geometrical optics that describes the behaviour of light rays in optical...
In geometric optics, the paraxial approximation is a small-angle approximation used in Gaussianoptics and ray tracing of light through an optical system...
to be described by simple matrices. This leads to the techniques of Gaussianoptics and paraxial ray tracing, which are used to find basic properties of...
divergence the Gaussian beam model is no longer accurate and a physical optics analysis is required. Beam divergence Beam parameter product Gaussian function...
"Gaussian Brackets". MathWorld - A Wolfram Web Resource. Retrieved 24 January 2023. M. Herzberger (December 1943). "GaussianOptics and Gaussian Brackets"...
to be described by simple matrices. This leads to the techniques of Gaussianoptics and paraxial ray tracing, which are used to find basic properties of...
subtraction logarithms) Gauss–Krüger coordinate system Gaussian grid Gauss lens Double-Gauss lens Gaussianoptics Gauss's principle of least constraint For orbit...
Sparrow's resolution limit Visual acuity In the case of laser beams, a GaussianOptics analysis is more appropriate than the Rayleigh criterion, and may reveal...
analyzing the Gaussian beam propagation in nonlinear Kerr media and its application to spatial self-phase modulations". Journal of Optics. 15 (3): 035202...
analysis on the formation of images under a paraxial approximation (Gaussianoptics). Gauss demonstrated, that under a paraxial approximation an optical...
particularly the physics of Gaussian beams, with laser applications, and with associated fields such as nonlinear optics and quantum optics. Laser science predates...
components per matrix element. The Gaussian unitary ensemble GUE ( n ) {\displaystyle {\text{GUE}}(n)} is described by the Gaussian measure with density 1 Z GUE...
concerned with the design and application of optical fibers is known as fiber optics. The term was coined by Indian-American physicist Narinder Singh Kapany...
the propagation of Gaussian beams where the beam width is comparable to the wavelength. This is in contrast to geometrical optics, where the wavelength...
In optics, the numerical aperture (NA) of an optical system is a dimensionless number that characterizes the range of angles over which the system can...
a linear optics platform for implementing a boson sampling experiment where input single-photons undergo an active (non-linear) Gaussian transformation...
assumptions: for example, they assume the paraxial approximation of Gaussianoptics. They are suitable for practical photography, lens designers would...
analysis of the formation of images under a paraxial approximation (Gaussianoptics). Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen cell. British inventor Warren De...
nanochemistry (to study and build materials from single molecules), quantum optics and quantum optomechanics (to study the interaction of single particles...
In optics, aberration is a property of optical systems, such as lenses, that causes light to be spread out over some region of space rather than focused...
Global Information