https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2004-00181-4
Diffraction of three-dimensional beams in uniaxial media
1
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Corresponding author: a lperez@df.uba.ar
Received:
11
March
2004
Revised:
27
May
2004
Published online:
7
December
2004
Within here we make an analysis of two and three-dimensional beams synthesized by extraordinary waves that propagate in uniaxial media. A relation between the geometric place of the first interference maxima and the energy flow direction is established. In addition, we determine that three-dimensional extraordinary symmetrical beams can be obtained from two two-dimensional ones that are not to be necessarily orthogonal.
PACS: 42.25.-p – Wave optics / 42.25.Bs – Wave propagation, transmission and absorption / 42.25.Lc – Birefringence / 42.15.Dp – Wave fronts and ray tracing
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2005
