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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Opt Express. 2008 Feb 18;16(4):2555–2569. doi: 10.1364/oe.16.002555

Table 1.

Analytic coordinates

ω Frequency coordinate
k Wavenumber
tω Time coordinate
t Time as if waves were propagated in dispersionless environment
r|| Transverse spatial coordinates
q Transverse spatial frequencies
z Longitudinal spatial coordinate
β Longitudinal spatial frequency