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        | Thesis | Dissertation | 1985-1989 | 1990-1994 | 1995-1999 | 2000-2004 |


        Master's Thesis
        Off-Axis Multimode Light Beam Propagation in Tapered Lenslike Media including those with Spatial Gain or Loss Variation
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        Dissertation
        Beam Modes of Lasers with Misaligned Complex Optical Elements
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        1985 - 1989 (1)
        D. L. Macfarlane, L. W. Casperson, and A. A. Tovar, "Spectral behavior and pulse train instabilities of a synchronously pumped mode-locked dye laser," Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 5, pp. 1144 -1152 (1988).
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        1990 - 1994 (3)
        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, "Off-Axis complex argument polynomial-Gaussian beams in optical systems," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 8, pp. 60 - 68 (1991).

        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, "Generalized reverse theorems for multipass applications in matrix optics," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 11, pp. 2633 - 2642 (1994).

        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, "Beam propagation in parabolically tapered graded-index waveguides," Applied Optics, vol. 33, pp. 7733 - 7739 (1994).
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        1995 - 1999 (13)
        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, "Generalized Sylvester theorems for periodic applications in matrix optics," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 12, pp. 578 - 590 (1995).

        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, "Generalized beam matrices: Gaussian beam propagation in misaligned complex optical systems," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 12, pp. 1522 - 1533 (1995).

        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, "Gaussian beam optical systems with high gain amplifiers," IEEE transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 43, pp. 1857 - 1862 (1995).

        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, "Generalized beam matrices II. Mode structure of lasers and periodic misaligned complex optical systems," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 13, pp. 90 - 96 (1996).

        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, "Generalized beam matrices III. Mode structure of lasers and periodic misaligned complex optical systems," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 13, pp. 2239 - 2246 (1996).

        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, "Generalized beam matrices. IV. Optical System Design," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 14, pp. 882 - 893 (1997).

        A. A. Tovar and G. H. Clark, "Concentric-circle-grating, surface-emitting laser beam propagation in complex optical systems," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 14, pp. 3333 - 3340 (1997).

        L. W. Casperson, D. Hall, and A. A. Tovar, "Sinusoidal-Gaussian beams in complex lenslike media and resonators," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 14, pp. 3341 - 3348 (1997).

        A. A. Tovar , "Phase Compensation of azimuthally polarized J1 Bessel-Gaussian laser beams," Applied Optics, vol. 37, pp. 540 - 545 (1998).

        L.  W. Casperson and A. A. Tovar, Hermite-sinusoidal-Gaussian beams in complex optical systems, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 15, pp. 954-961 (1998).

        A. A. Tovar and L. W. Casperson, Production and propagation of Hermite-sinusoidal-Gaussian beams, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 15, pp. 2425-2432 (1998).

        A. A. Tovar, Production and propagation of cylindrically polarized Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 15, pp. 2705 -2711 (1998).

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        2000 - 2004
        A. A. Tovar, Propagation of Laguerre-Bessel-Gaussian beams, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 17, pp. 2010 - 2018 (2000).

        A. A. Tovar, Propagation of flat-topped multi-Gaussian beams, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 18, pp. 1897 - 1904 (2001).

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