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Classical and Semi-Classical Optics with MAPLE: Investigating a Two-dimensional Light Ray Geometry

Authors: Eckhard Hitzer

Contents: The Geometry of a Two-dimensional Equiangular Spiral - Solving the Transcendental Light Path Equation (T) with MAPLE’s fsolve - MAPLE Programming of a Simple, Nontrivial Ray Tracing Algorithm - Interactive, Iterative Minimization of Errors - Solving the Transcendental Mode Equations (M) - Iterative Numerical Continuation of Solutions to Transcendental Mode Equations - Visualizing Results with MAPLE Plot Stuctures - Porting the Results to Standard Image Formats - Semi-Classical Optics.

Comments: 2 Pages. in C.H. Patterson, J. Nadrchal (eds.), Proceedings of Teaching Computational Physics, 12th Summer School on Computational Techniques in Physics, Trest, Czech Republic, 28 Aug.-2 Sep. 2000, pp. 54-56.

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