This book presents an authoritative treatment of electromagnetic waves and develops complex space source theory as a branch of Fourier Optics.

Including an essential background discussion of the many applications and drawbacks for paraxial beams, the book treats the exact full-wave generalizations of all the basic types of paraxial beam solutions and develops complex space source theory as a branch of Fourier Optics. It introduces and carefully explains original analytical techniques, including a treatment of both partially coherent and partially incoherent waves and of the newly...