title: Quantitative description of the self-healing ability of a beam.
abstract: Quantitative description of the self-healing ability of a beam is very important for studying or comparing the self-healing ability of different beams. As describing the similarity by using the angle of two infinite-dimensional complex vectors in Hilbert space, the angle of two intensity profiles is proposed to quantitatively describe the self-healing ability of different beams. As a special case, quantitative description of the self-healing ability of a Bessel-Gaussian beam is studied. Results show that the angle of two intensity profiles can be used to describe the self-healing ability of arbitrary beams as the reconstruction distance for quantitatively describing the self-healing ability of Bessel beam. It offers a new method for studying or comparing the self-healing ability of different beams.
authors.forename: Xiuxiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wen