# Quasioptical modeling of wave beams with and without mode conversion: II. Numerical simulations of single-mode beams

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a numerical code for quasioptical modeling of electromagnetic beams, validating it against analytical and ray-tracing methods, focusing on single-mode beams in vacuum and plasma.

## Contribution

It presents the PARADE code for simulating single-mode electromagnetic beams and compares its results with analytical and ray-tracing solutions.

## Key findings

- PARADE accurately models single-mode beams in vacuum and plasma.
- Numerical results agree with Gaussian-beam optics and cold-plasma ray tracing.
- The code enables detailed quasioptical simulations for beam analysis.

## Abstract

This work continues a series of papers where we propose an algorithm for quasioptical modeling of electromagnetic beams with and without mode conversion. The general theory was reported in the first paper of this series, where a parabolic partial differential equation was derived for the field envelope that may contain one or multiple modes with close group velocities. Here, we present a corresponding code PARADE (PAraxial RAy DEscription) and its test applications to single-mode beams in vacuum and also in inhomogeneous magnetized plasma. The numerical results are compared, respectively, with analytic formulas from Gaussian-beam optics and also with cold-plasma ray tracing. Quasioptical simulations of mode-converting beams are reported in the next, third paper of this series.