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Elegant Gaussian beams: nondiffracting nature and self-healing property

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Abstract

Alongside the well-known solutions of standard beams, elegant Gaussian beams (eGBs) have been presented as alternative solutions to the paraxial wave equation. In this work, we show that the eGBs in cartesian (elegant Hermite–Gauss) and cylindrical (elegant Laguerre–Gauss) coordinates are asymptotically equivalent to pseudo-nondiffracting beams (pNDBs) in the same coordinates (cosine–Gauss and Bessel–Gauss, respectively). A theoretical comparison of their intensity distributions at different planes without and with obstruction is given, allowing to revisit and discuss the diffraction-free nature and self-healing property. The obtained results demonstrate that both families of beams are indistinguishable and have similar propagation features, which means that the eGBs class can be used as an alternative to pNDBs.

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