Abstract

In this work we compute, via the quantum potential approach, the Hamiltonian system determined by Hermite–Gaussian beams. Then we show that the integral curves of the Poynting vector, exact optics energy trajectories, conform to a subset of solutions to the corresponding Hamilton equations lying on hyperboloidal surfaces. The geometrical light rays associated with these beams are given by the tangent lines to the integral curves of the Poynting vector at the zeroes of the quantum potential, and the caustic region coincides with the zeroes of quantum potential and quantum force. One of the main contributions of this work is to present the relationship between the physical phase $k\Phi$, the geometrical-optics phase $k{\Phi _G}$, and the quantum potential ${Q_{{\rm HG}}}$ in the Hermite–Gaussian beams. Furthermore, note that for any solution to the paraxial wave equation in free space, the tangent lines to the integral curves of the Poynting vector that correspond to the geometric light rays are those that pass through the points where the region determined by zeroes of the quantum potential is tangent to the geometrical caustic determined by the geometric light rays.

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