Wave-front curvature in geometrical optics

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 6127-6134

  More, Richard M ^a   Kosaka, Keiji ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VECTORS;

HAMILTON EQUATION; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 0032075013     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.57.6127     Document Type: Article

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