Gaussian beams can be seen as an improvement over methods based on classical geometrical optics. Gaussian beams contain more information than geometrical optics rays and produce valid approximations at caustics and shadow lines. Contrary to geometrical optics, the amplitudes of a wavefield computed by Gaussian beams stay finite at caustics.  Gaussian beams have been used in the generation of synthetic seismic wavefields and also for migration imaging and have resulted in successes in real applications. However, many challenges remain to be solved.

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