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Application of the multiscale singular perturbation method to nonparaxial beam propagations in free space.
Starting from the vector Maxwell's equations and applying the multiscale singular perturbation method, the nonparaxial beam propagation is studied in free space. Two new equations have been derived for transverse and longitudinal electric fields of an arbitrary polarized electromagnetic wave even in the case of tightly focused nonparaxial laser beams. By using the analogy of the optical beam in the space domain and the optical pulse in the time domain, the higher-order diffraction term is introduced. For strongly nonparaxial beams that are characterized by large values of the perturbative parameter, our correction solutions yield an accurate description of the field in the near-field region and are consistent with all other correction results obtained by others in the far-field region. For weakly nonparaxial beams, our correction solutions can be expressed in a very simple form that is proved to be exactly consistent with the solutions obtained by Cao and Deng [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A15, 1144 (1998)]. In addition, the lowest-order correction to the paraxial approximation can be found to be in good agreement with the results of Lax et al. [Phys. Rev. A11, 1365 (1975)] and Seshadri [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A19, 2134 (2002)].
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