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Generalized Hermite-Laguerre-Gauss beams

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Some classes of structurally stable paraxial light fields depending on a continuous parameter and generalizing standard Hermite-Gauss and Laguerre-Gauss beams are theoretically investigated.

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Abramochkin, E.G., Volostnikov, V.G. Generalized Hermite-Laguerre-Gauss beams. Phys. Wave Phen. 18, 14–22 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1541308X10010036

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