Equivalence between radial quadrature and finite series for spherical wave expansion of Bessel beams

The radial quadrature method was recently proposed for formulating the beam shape coefficients (BSCs) for shaped beams. A new deduction of BSCs using the R-quadrature method is presented in this paper, using the integral of the spherical Bessel functions in the interval ranging from zero to infinity. Based on the scalar descrip-tion of the Bessel beam, the equivalence between the R-quadrature and the finite series (FS) method is confirmed. The spherical wave expansion of the scalar function allows us to simplify the formulation of the BSCs in the R-quadrature and the FS and to speed up the numerical BSC calculation. As a by-product, FS expansions of the associated Legendre functions are established, which we do not find in the literature.& COPY; 2023 Optica Publishing Group

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This paper presents a new deduction method for formulating the beam shape coefficients using the radial quadrature method. The equivalence between the radial quadrature and the finite series method is confirmed, allowing for simplified and faster numerical calculation of the coefficients. Additionally, the paper establishes finite series expansions of the associated Legendre functions.