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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Mathematical Physics

    Background:

    • Paraxial light fields are essential in optical systems.
    • Cross-spectral purity is a key property of optical fields.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the relationship between paraxial light field intensities and their corresponding field amplitudes.
    • To explore the conditions under which a cross-spectrally pure field amplitude can reproduce specific intensity distributions.

    Main Methods:

    • Construction of specific examples of paraxial light fields.
    • Analysis of intensity distributions across transverse planes.
    • Determination of cross-spectrally pure field amplitudes for selected intensity pairs.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstration that not all paraxial light field intensities can be reproduced by a single cross-spectrally pure field amplitude.
    • Identification of specific pairs of transverse plane intensities that *can* be reproduced by such an amplitude.
    • Observation that the phase of the field amplitude is dependent on the chosen pair of planes.

    Conclusions:

    • The concept of a unique field amplitude for all intensities in a paraxial light field is not universally applicable.
    • Contextual phase information is crucial when relating specific intensity distributions to cross-spectrally pure field amplitudes.