Fractionalization of optical beams: I. Planar analysis
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1Photonics and Mathematical Optics Group, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México. juliocesar@itesm.mx
Optics Letters
|June 5, 2007
Abstract:
We apply the tools of the fractional calculus to introduce new fractional-order beam solutions to the paraxial wave equation that can be regarded as intermediate solutions between the known integral-order solutions. We restrict our attention to the fractionalization of the elegant and standard Hermite-Gaussian beams.

