Stability parameters of optical components of cw and pulse-periodic laser systems

Abstract

The hydrogen atom in a strong magnetic field is represented by means of sturmian functions, which offer a complete basis which is well adapted to describing the distortion induced,by the field.Methods of computation of the eigenvalue spectrum using this basis are described, and a critical comparison made with results obtained by use of the incomplete basis of hydrogenic radial functions.A brief account is given of the techniques employed for dealing with the very large matrices appearing in the calculations.