Bessel-Gauss pulse as an appropriate mathematical model for optically realizable localized waves

Opt Lett. 2004 Jun 1;29(11):1176-8. doi: 10.1364/ol.29.001176.

Abstract

We show that the field of the optically feasible luminal localized wave solutions of the scalar homogeneous wave equation can be modeled by means of Bessel-Gauss pulses. As the Bessel-Gauss pulses have a closed-form expression, this fact may be of great value in numerical simulations of various experimental situations.