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authorEugeniy Mikhailov <evgmik@gmail.com>2013-09-27 17:26:04 -0400
committerEugeniy Mikhailov <evgmik@gmail.com>2013-09-27 17:26:04 -0400
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proper way to find location of the waist in the cavity
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+function [w0, z0] = cavity_optics2its_waist_and_position( cavity_optics, lambda )
+
+abcd_cavity = optics2abcd( cavity_optics );
+cavity_length = cavity_optics{end}.x;
+N=length(cavity_optics);
+
+if ~isCavityStable(abcd_cavity)
+ display('Cavity is unstable !');
+ display('We should stop now. There is no stable mode in this cavity');
+ error('Not possible to calculate a cavity mode in the unstable cavity');
+end
+
+zstart = 0;
+qstart = abcd2self_repeating_q( abcd_cavity );
+
+% waist location of this particular Gaussian beam
+% which disregards other optical elements
+z0 = - real (qstart);
+
+i = 1;
+if ( (z0 > cavity_optics{1}.x) || (z0 < 0) )
+ % waist is to the left of the cavity or beyond first reflective/refractive element
+ % we need to swap cavity elements by one
+ % in attempt to find waist in between optics elements
+ x1 = cavity_optics{i}.x;
+ for i=2:N
+ cavity_optics_transpose{i-1} = cavity_optics{ i };
+ cavity_optics_transpose{i-1}.x = cavity_optics{ i }.x - x1;
+ end
+ cavity_optics_transpose{N} = cavity_optics{1};
+ cavity_optics_transpose{N}.x = cavity_length;
+ [w0, z0] = cavity_optics2its_waist_and_position( cavity_optics_transpose, lambda );
+ z0 = cavity_optics{1}.x + z0;
+else
+ q0 = gbeam_propagation ( z0, qstart, zstart, cavity_optics );
+ [w0, r0 ] = q2wr( q0, lambda );
+end
+
+
+end
+