Abstract
Hermite–Gauss and Laguerre–Gauss modes of a continuous optical field in two dimensions can be obtained from each other through paraxial optical setups that produce rotations in (four-dimensional) phase space. These transformations build the Fourier group that is represented by rigid rotations of the Poincaré sphere. In finite systems, where the emitters and the sensors are in square pixellated arrays, one defines corresponding finite orthonormal and complete sets of two-dimensional Kravchuk modes. Through the importation of symmetry from the continuous case, the transformations of the Fourier group are applied on the finite modes.
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